DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 2693
USS Mount Vernon (1917-1919)
Crewmembers at their stations topsides, shortly after the ship
was torpedoed by German submarine U-82 on 5 September
1918.
Note life rafts and collapsible life boats.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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