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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102519

USS Wendy
(SP-448)

Underway during the World War I era.
This former pleasure craft was acquired by the Navy on 1 July 1917 and placed in commission on 3 August. She was decommissioned and returned to her owner on 9 December 1918.
Note Sailor manning her bow gun, a 1-pounder. Wendy's stern weapon is a Colt machine gun. She is flying a 48-star Jack on her starboard signal halliard.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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15 June 2004