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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 99410

USS Shawmut
(ID # 1255)

Planting mines in the North Sea, 1918.
A British "V-W" type destroyer is laying a smoke screen at right.
Note Shawmut's pattern camouflage.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Admiral William S. Benson, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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22 June 2004