Photo #: 19-N-30508 USS Southard (DMS-10) Photographed from directly astern, off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 10 June 1942. The actual date of the photo may be 9 June 1942. Note details of her conversion to a fast minesweeper: squared-off triangular transom, with her name visible; sweep gear and davits on the stern; depth charge tracks angled out over the propeller guards; .50 caliber anti-aircraft machineguns at the rear of her after deckhouse. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 74KB; 590 x 765 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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17 April 2002