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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 101777

Trawler Georgetown


Photographed circa 1940, at about the time she was acquired by the U.S. Navy. Note U.S. flag painted on the side of her pilothouse as a wartime neutrality marking.
Built in 1928, Georgetown was acquired by the Navy on 4 September 1940 and commissioned on 3 March 1941 as USS Linnet (AM-76).

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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30 January 2001