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Photo #: NH 102634

USS Vega
(SP-734)

Off Cape May, New Jersey, circa summer or fall 1918.
The four-masted schooner in the right center background is probably USS Robert H. McCurdy (ID # 3157), a decoy ship intended to lure German U-Boats within torpedo range of nearby U.S. Navy submarines.

Collection of Christopher H.W. Lloyd. Donated by Virginia Agostini, 1990.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 20 December 2004