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.
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