Keywords: USS Robert L. Barnes (AO-14).jpg en SS Robert L Barnes underway circa 1917 before acquisition by the Navy Alexander McDougall built her as the prototype rectangular ship or sea-going canal boat with a plain low hull and a superstructure that could be removed to pass under canal bridges US Navy photo NH 65155 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center http //www navsource org/archives/09/19/19014 htm US Navy photo NH 65155 1917 Cargo ships of the United States Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy |