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Photo #: 19-N-30509

USS Southard (DMS-10)


At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 9 June 1942.
Note that she still retains her original 4"/50 guns. Other items visible include her whaleboat and gig, engine room hatches, reels for minesweeping cables, .50 caliber anti-aircraft machineguns mounted on the rear corners of her after deckhouse, depth charge tracks and minesweeping gear on her stern.
A former sister ship, still fitted as a destroyer, is alongside, with 20mm anti-aircraft machineguns and torpedo tubes visible.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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17 April 2002