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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 51356

USS Long Beach
(ID # 2136)

In drydock in the commercial port at Brest, France, on 29 October 1918. She was being repaired after running on the rocks off Brest in a fog and being under water for nearly two months. Formerly the German Hohenfelde, she was designated AK-9 in 1920.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

Online Image: 102KB; 590 x 765 pixels

 

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    Image posted 11 October 2007
    Edited and reposted 22 September 2009