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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 85
German Mines
On board USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2) at Queenstown,
Ireland, during World War I. These had been recovered by divers
from the German submarine UC-44, which had been destroyed
by the detonation of her own mines at Waterford, Ireland, in
1917.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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