Photo #: NH 105581
USS Wakiva (SP-160)
View on board, looking forward from the mainmast, circa 1918.
Wakiva's smokestack is in the foreground, with her bridge
just beyond. Two "menhadden fisherman" type minesweepers
are alongside, to port.
Courtesy of James A. Turner, Jr., from the collection of Samuel
A. Turner, Jr., who served in USS Wakiva (SP-160) during
World War I.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 450 pixels
Note: Though the original print was labeled USS Carola
IV (SP-812), this ship is actually the much larger Wakiva. |
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