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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 99473

USS Penguin
(Minesweeper # 33), at left
and
USS Lapwing (Minesweeper # 1)

"Coming up to repass" sweep gear, after exploding a mine during the sweeping of the North Sea Mine Barrage in 1919.
Note the identification letters on the ships' bows: "PD" on Penguin and "W" on Lapwing.
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 59.

Donation of Chief Storekeeper Charles A. Free.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 340 pixels

 

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9 July 2004