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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96959 USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729) Tied up to pilings off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 3 January 1946. Note seagulls overhead and flags flying from the ship's foremast. The signal flag on the starboard halliards is "H", meaning "I have a pilot aboard". The four signal flags on the port halliards are the ship's call letters "NTHR". Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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7 September 1999