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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-33192

USS Seawolf
(SS-197)

Periscope photograph of a sinking Japanese ship, torpedoed by Seawolf in the Philippines-East Indies area during the fall of 1942.
This ship carries at least one landing craft forward, has a searchlight above her pilothouse and a gun mounted at the aft end of the midships superstructure. Her general configuration resembles the S.S. Gifu Maru, sunk on 2 November 1942, but she could also be the converted gunboat Keiko Maru, sunk on 8 November.
Note the boat hanging from one davit amidships, as crewmen attempt to lower another boat further forward.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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15 September 2004