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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102017

Leslie J. Fulton
(U.S. Fishing Boat, 1936)

Photographed prior to her Navy service.
She was acquired by the Navy on 19 November 1940, commissioned as USS Waxbill (AMc-15) on 26 November 1940 and completed conversion to a coastal minesweeper on 14 July 1941. Stricken on 14 October 1944, she was transferred to the U.S. Maritime Commission in January 1945.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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4 January 2002