Photo #: NH 99690
USS Panther (1898-1923)
Moored in Kirkwall Harbor, Orkney Islands, while supporting the
North Sea mine barrage clearance operation in 1919. She has several
trawlers and submarine chasers alongside. The latter include
(from left to right, in outboard group off Panther's port
side: SC-48, SC-328, SC-38 and SC-181.
Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken by DeLong, of USS
Black Hawk, published in the cruise book "Sweeping
the North Sea Mine Barrage, 1919", page 33.
Donation of Chief Storekeeper Charles A. Free.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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