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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-432568

Thai frigate Prasae


Stranded behind enemy lines on the Korean east coast, January 1951. She had gone ashore in a snowstorm on 7 January and had to be destroyed after unsuccessful efforts to pull her off.
A helicopter and several U.S. Navy ships, including USS Endicott (DMS-35), are offshore covering salvage operations.
Prasae was formerly the British corvette Betony and the Indiana Navy's Sind.

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

Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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22 October 1999