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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 89149

USS Mount Vernon
(1917-1919)

Steaming towards Brest, France, after she had been torpedoed by German submarine U-82 in the eastern Atlantic on 5 September 1918.
An escorting destroyer is laying a smokescreen in the background.

Collection of Lieutenant Commander P.W. Yeatman, USN (Retired).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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14 October 2003