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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 56666

USS Bella
(ID # 2211)

At Pauillac, France, during the First World War.
Note camouflage pattern painted on her smokestack, and possibly on her after deckhouses.
The hulk of the old French coast defense ship Furieux (launched 1883) is in the center background.
The original print, received from Naval Air Station, Pauillac, following World War I, had the following caption: "U.S.S. Bella carried half of the construction supplies sent from here to other stations."

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15 March 2004