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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 99181

USS Fairmont
(ID # 2429)

Ship's after (six-inch) gun, 1918.
Inscription on the original print's reverse reads: "Crew made 8 hits 17000 yds at 12 knots". If this statement is correct, this would have been an extraordinary feat of gunnery.

Collection of Grant S. Ray, who served in Fairmont during World War I.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 490 pixels

 

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17 March 2004