Photo #: NH 99789
USS Eider (Minesweeper # 17),
with identification letter "N"
In a North Sea port, probably Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, during
the the North Sea mine barrage clearance operation in 1919. She
has several submarine chasers alongside including, from left
to right: SC-25, SC-45, SC-356, SC-47
and SC-40.
Halftone reproduction, published in the cruise book "Sweeping
the North Sea Mine Barrage, 1919", page 142.
Donation of Chief Storekeeper Charles A. Free.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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