Photo #: NH 68589
USS LST-735 (at right)
Serving as "mother ship" for seven minesweepers, probably
in a Japanese port, circa 1952-54.
Ships nested alongside are (from left):
USS Gull (AMS-16);
USS Firecrest (AMS-10);
USS Condor (AMS-5);
USS Merganser (AMS-26);
USS Osprey (AMS-28);
USS Competent (AM-316) and
USS Chief (AM-315).
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute, James C. Fahey Collection.
Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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