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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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1 December 2004