Photo #: NH 44900
"Menhaden Fisherman" type of converted minesweepers
Off Lorient, France, probably during a review of U.S. and French
ships on 29 November 1918.
Four of these ships are identified as USS Hubbard (SP-416)
USS Anderton (SP-530), USS Lewes (SP-383) and USS
James (SP-429). Hubbard is in the foreground, wearing
the number "8". Anderton is the third ship from
the front (only partially visible), with her smokestack immediately
behind her pilothouse.
The ships were originally named B.H.B. Hubbard, Raymond
J. Anderton, City of Lewes and W.T. James.
A Navy Department general order in July 1917 ordered section
patrol (SP) boat names shortened to surnames only.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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