File:USS Shawmut (CM-4) laying mines in North Sea 1918.jpg

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Description The U.S. Navy minelayer USS Shawmut (ID No. 1255, later CM-4) operating at sea in October 1918, during the laying of the North Sea mine barrage. The ship is painted in a disruptive camouflage scheme. To avoid verbal confusion with USS Chaumont (AP-5), she was renamed Oglala in January 1928.
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Official U.S. Navy photograph NH 42398, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center [1].

This photograph Catalogue number comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. IWM Q 20264)
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