Joseph G. Hitner

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Joseph G. Hitner (born 1862, date of death unknown) owned an iron works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He purchased many United States Navy ships in the early 1900s, converting some of them to merchant ships and scrapping others.

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

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