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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 45099

"Menhaden Fisherman" type of converted minesweepers


View of minesweeping gear on the sterns of two ships, taken at Lorient, France, in 1918.
The ship in the foreground is USS Anderton (SP-530), which was originally named Raymond J. Anderton.
Note ships' minesweeping floats and davits; and the rack, holding two depth charges, mounted on the stern of the more distant minesweeper.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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26 September 2002