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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 89760

USS W.L. Messick (SP-322)

Probably photographed at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, circa 1917.
Note the six-pounder gun mounted on her foredeck.
Another converted "Menhaden Fisherman" patrol and minesweeping vessel is in the background.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

Online Image: 68 KB; 900 x 525 pixels

 

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    Image posted 23 January 2011