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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 82094

Kuma
(Japanese Light Cruiser, 1920)

Anchored off Tsingtao, China, 16 July 1935.
Note details of the ship's forward superstructure, tripod foremast, awning spread over the torpedo tubes, 5.5-inch guns, windscoops attached to some portholes, and forward smokestack.
USS Canopus (AS-9) is in the distance, at right.

The original print came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II project working files.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 22 August 2007