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Photo # NH 2692:  USS Mount Vernon crewmen on deck, shortly after she was torpedoed on 5 September 1918

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USS Mount Vernon (ID # 4508), 1917-1919 --
Torpedoed, 5 September 1918 (Part II)


This page features taken on board USS Mount Vernon during and shortly after the time she was torpedoed.

For more pictures concerning this event, see:

  • USS Mount Vernon (ID # 4508) -- Torpedoed, 5 September 1918.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 45761

    USS Mount Vernon
    (1917-1919)

    Ship's Number Two five-inch gun coming into action on the morning of 5 September 1918. Mount Vernon was torpedoed by German submarine U-82 in this engagement.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 2693

    USS Mount Vernon
    (1917-1919)

    Crewmembers at their stations topsides, shortly after the ship was torpedoed by German submarine U-82 on 5 September 1918.
    Note life rafts and collapsible life boats.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45760

    USS Mount Vernon
    (1917-1919)

    Crewmen on deck shortly after the ship was torpedoed by German submarine U-82, 5 September 1918.
    Note life rafts and collapsible life boats in the background.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103937

    USS Mount Vernon
    (ID # 4508)

    Halftone reproduction of a photograph showing wounded Soldiers and Sailors immediately after the ship was torpedoed by German Submarine U-82 on 5 September 1918. They have been placed in a life boat as a precautionary measure.
    This image was published in 1918-1919 as one of ten photographs in a "Souvenir Folder" of views concerning the ship and her 5 September 1918 torpedoing.

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2006.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 500 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45763

    USS Mount Vernon
    (1917-1919)

    Bucket brigade bailing water out of the after Troops' Mess Hall, after the ship was torpedoed by German submarine U-82 on 5 September 1918.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45764

    USS Mount Vernon
    (1917-1919)

    "Group" of crewmen on deck about thirty minutes after the ship was torpedoed by German submarine U-82, 5 September 1918.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 2692

    USS Mount Vernon
    (1917-1919)

    Crewmembers on deck shortly after the ship was torpedoed by German submarine U-82 on 5 September 1918. Two of these men had escaped from the damaged firerooms.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 98KB; 740 x 440 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45762

    USS Mount Vernon
    (1917-1919)

    Soldiers and Sailors talking it over after the ship arrived at Brest, France, on 6 September 1918. Mount Vernon was torpedoed by German submarine U-82 on the previous day.
    Note the blimp in the center background.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     

    For more pictures concerning this event, see:

  • USS Mount Vernon (ID # 4508) -- Torpedoed, 5 September 1918.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 15 October 2003
    New images added 13 August 2006