US WWI Era Named Navy Good Conduct Medal, USS Newport News, 1922
This item is listed for historical interest only. It was listed on our site previously but has been sold and is no longer available for purchase.
Sold for: $95.00

Original era manufacture. A nice old medal with it's original wrap brooch and planchet but has had a replacement ribbon installed at some point. Nice period engraving on the reverse of the planchet, C.S.C. 60421 CHARLES G COULTER USS NEWPORT NEWS 2.JUNE 1922. The USS Newport News had an interesting history, built at Flensburg Germany in 1904 as a 10,000 ton cargo ship and named St.Jan,  purchased in 1907 by the Hamburg-America Line and renamed Odenwald. She was in port at Puerto Rico in 1917 and was seized by the US Navy at the entry of the US into the war, who in turn renamed her the USS Newport News. She served for many years as a cargo/troopship in the Atlantic and Pacific, sold in 1925, she became the merchant ship Arctic and was scrapped in 1937. The jump ring has been elongated a bit, otherwise normal age and wear.