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Photo # 80-G-46242:  USS Tide underway at sea, circa 1943-1944

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USS Tide (AM-125), 1943-1944

USS Tide, an 890-ton Auk class minesweeper built at Savannah, Georgia, was commissioned in May 1943. During most of the rest of that year, and into 1944, she was employed on trans-Atlantic convoy escort service as well as operating along the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean Sea. Tide went to British waters in March 1944 and spent the next few months performing coastal escort work and preparing for the planned invasion of France. As the invasion of Normandy got underway on 5 June 1944, she took part in mine clearance operations ahead of the landing forces. This work continued during the following two days, as Allied armies seized a long beachhead along the French coast. On the morning of 7 June, while off "Utah" Beach, USS Tide was fatally damaged by a German mine and soon sank.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Tide (AM-125).


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Photo #: 80-G-46242

USS Tide
(AM-125)

Underway at sea, circa 1943-1944.
This photograph has been retouched by wartime censors to remove the radar antenna atop the ship's mast.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 128KB; 740 x 605 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 80-G-410253

USS Tide
(AM-125)

Underway at sea, 15 June 1943.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 126KB; 740 x 595 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 80-G-651676

USS Tide
(AM-125)

Sinking, soon after hitting a mine off "Utah" Beach, on 7 June 1944, during the Normandy landings.
Note her broken back, with smoke pouring from amidships.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 80-G-651678

USS Tide
(AM-125)

Sinking, soon after hitting a mine off "Utah" Beach during the Normandy landings, 7 June 1944,.
USS Pheasant (AM-61) is standing by, off Tide's bow.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 595 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 80-G-651677

USS Tide
(AM-125)

Sinking off "Utah" Beach after striking a mine during the Normandy invasion, 7 June 1944.
USS PT-509 and USS Pheasant (AM-61) are standing by.
Photographed from USS Threat (AM-124).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 


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