DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
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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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