Photo #: 111-SC-43563
Laying the North Sea Mine Barrage, 1918
U.S. Navy minelayers proceeding to sea in two columns, in Area Number 2 of the North Sea, September 1918.
Ships in the column at left are (from front to rear): Roanoke, Housatonic, Quinnebaug and Baltimore.
Ships in column at right are (from front to rear): Canonicus (out of picture, to right), Canandaigua, Aroostook and Saranac.
Note disruptive "dazzle" camouflage worn by these ships.
Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
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9 January 2001