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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 99472

USS Penguin
(Minesweeper # 33)

Steaming at full speed for Scapa Flow, 21 June 1919, during an unsuccessful effort to arrive in time to save some of the German warships scuttled there on that day.
Note the identification letters "PD" on her bow.
Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken by DeLong, of USS Black Hawk, published in the cruise book "Sweeping the North Sea Mine Barrage, 1919", page 38.

Donation of Chief Storekeeper Charles A. Free.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 

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9 July 2004