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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 98583

USS Mercury (ID # 3012)


Hoisting a paravane from the ship's foredeck, circa 1919.
Note the piping running down and across the bridge face, probably speaking tubes from the upper bridge to operating stations below decks.

Courtesy of Mrs. W.A. Nightengale, 1971.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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25 June 2003