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NH 99474 "The Buoy Laying Division in Kirkwall Harbor"

Photo #: NH 99474 "The Buoy Laying Division in Kirkwall Harbor"
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Title: "The Buoy Laying Division in Kirkwall Harbor"
Description: Photo #: NH 99474 The Buoy Laying Division in Kirkwall Harbor From left to right, in center: USS Osprey (Minesweeper # 29), USS Penguin (Minesweeper # 33), and USS Lapwing (Minesweeper # 1) moored together in Kirkwall Harbor, Orkney Islands, during the sweeping of the North Sea Mine Barrage, 1919. Note the identification letters on the ships' bows: A on Osprey, PD on Penguin and W on Lapwing. Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken by Kitress, of USS Swan, published in the cruise book Sweeping the North Sea Mine Barrage, 1919, page 63. Donation of Chief Storekeeper Charles A. Free. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 99474
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