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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 55506

USS Covington
(ID # 1409)

Sinking off Brest, France, on 2 July 1918. She had been torpedoed the previous day by German submarine U-86.
A tug is visible ahead of Covington, which may have been under tow at the time of this photograph.
Note lifeboat some distance away from the ship's port side.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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5 November 2003