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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102631

Helvetia
(U.S. Schooner, 1905)

Probably photographed in July 1918, when she was inspected and acquired for the U.S. Navy as USS Helvetia (SP-3096).
Intended to serve as a decoy to lure German U-boats within torpedo range of U.S. submarines operating nearby, Helvetia was operationally deployed but never encountered the enemy.

Copied from an "SP" data card held by the Naval Historical Center's Ships' Histories Branch, 1991.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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20 February 2001