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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 41703
USS Leviathan (ID # 1326)
"One of the six-inch stern guns on the USS Leviathan,
the biggest ship in the World. The former German liner carried
a battery of eight of these guns for protection against the U-boats,
as well as two 'Y' guns which hurled depth bombs loaded with
TNT. She was attacked several times by the undersea pirates and
according to officers of the vessel one attacking sub was sunk
by a shell from one of the six inch guns." (Quoted from
the original picture caption, dated 19 December 1918)
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Image posted 4 November 2005