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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 51160

USS L-3
(Submarine # 42)

Crewman sends a message to another submarine (visible in the center distance) using semaphore flags, during operations off Berehaven, Ireland in 1918.
Note "SC Tube" type hydrophone and white stripe (probably a recognition marking) on L-3's foredeck.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 20 April 2005