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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 61488

USS Covington
(ID # 1409)

Sinking off Brest, France. She had been torpedoed by German submarine U-86 on 1 July 1918 and sank the next day.
The ship's flag is still flying from her stern, just above the water.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 530 pixels

 

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5 November 2003