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Photo #: NH 90278

USCGC Tampa and USCGC Seneca memorial plaque


This table, photographed following World War I, was dedicated to the memory of the 115 officers and men of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa who lost their lives when she was sunk on 26 September 1918, and to the memory of the eleven officers and men of the Coast Guard Cutter Seneca who were lost while attempting to salvage the British S.S. Wellington on 17 September 1918.

Collection of Vice Admiral Thomas T. Craven, USN. Courtesy of Lieutenant Rodman DeKay, Jr., USNR (Retired), 1979.

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Image posted 17 September 2005