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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102373

USS Whitecap
(SP-340)

Underway in a harbor, circa 1917-1919.
Built as the civilian trawler Whitecap in 1916, this fishing vessel was acquired by the Navy on 28 April 1917 and placed in commission on 8 May 1917. She was returned to her owner on 1 April 1919.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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15 March 2004