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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 98570
USS Mercury (ID # 3012)
Church pennant flies from the mainmast gaff, during one of the
ship's trans-Atlantic voyages, circa 1918-1919
Note lookout "crow's nest" on the mast, and Sailors
on the rigging.
Courtesy of James Russell, 1980.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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