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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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Image posted 29 February 2008