Photo #: NH 103936
USS Mount Vernon (ID # 4508)
Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken at Brest, France,
showing an honor guard with the caskets of some of the thirty-six
crewmen killed when the ship was torpedoed by German Submarine
U-82 on 5 September 1918
This image was published in 1918-1919 as one of ten photographs
in a "Souvenir Folder" of views concerning the ship
and her 5 September 1918 torpedoing.
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2006.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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