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Photo #: NH 103189

Light Minelayers
(ex-destroyers)

At the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, circa mid- 1921.
Photographed by H.J. Darley, 46 Water Street, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
These ships, all still wearing their destroyer bow numbers with the mine force insignia painted on immediately behind, are (from left to right):
USS Mahan (DM-7, formerly DD-102);
USS Lansdale (DM-6, formerly DD-101);
USS Maury (DM-5, formerly DD-100); and
USS Israel (DM-3, formerly DD-98).
The original print bears a hand-written note referring to a Commandant, Boston Navy Yard letter of 4 October 1921.

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Image posted 3 November 2005