Hard to find USS Bridgeport flat cap in overall great condition. Only a few tiny moth nips, some wear to the cap talley, and a little mis-shapen due to the internal wire ring broken. Tag reads "De Leon patented 1918" and also has a small tag inside the blue satin (?) liner that reads "Marie A. Shepherd".
 
USS Bridgeport was a destroyer tender in the US Navy during World War I and the years after. She was built in 1901 at Vegesack, Germany as SS Breslau of the North German Lloyd line. Breslau was one of the seven ships of the Köln class of ships built for the Bremen to Baltimore and Galveston route. Interned at New Orleans, Louisiana at the outbreak of World War I, Breslau was seized in 1917 by the United States after her entry into the war and commissioned into the Navy as USS Bridgeport. Originally slated to be a repair ship, she was reclassified as a destroyer tender the following year. Bridgeport completed several transatlantic convoy crossings before she was stationed at Brest, France, where she remained in a support role after the end of World War I.