Photo #: NH 78920
USS Helvetia (SP-3096)
Under sail, as seen from the submarine USS E-2 (SS-25),
during an anti-submarine patrol in 1918.
Helvetia, a former civilian schooner, was intended to
serve as decoy ship to entice German submarines to surface and
attack her with gunfire, hereupon the U.S. Navy submarine, following
submerged, would torpedo the enemy U-Boat.
Courtesy of the Submarine Force Library and Museum, Groton, Connecticut,
1972.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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