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Minesweepers - Left to right: H.M.S. BLACKPOOL, H.M.S. BRIDLINGTON and H.M.S. BUDE – Vintage Wall Art

Minesweepers - Left to right: H.M.S. BLACKPOOL, H.M.S. BRIDLINGTON and H.M.S. BUDE, [between 1939 and 1945] — historic photograph
Minesweepers - Left to right: H.M.S. BLACKPOOL, H.M.S. BRIDLINGTON and H.M.S. BUDE, [between 1939 and 1945]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic photograph of Minesweepers - Left to right: H.M.S. BLACKPOOL, H.M.S. BRIDLINGTON and H.M.S. BUDE brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Minesweepers - Left to right: H.M.S. BLACKPOOL, H.M.S. BRIDLINGTON and H.M.S. BUDE

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This photograph shows three British naval minesweepers, H.M.S. Blackpool, H.M.S. Bridlington, and H.M.S. Bude, lined up from left to right. Many Royal Navy minesweepers of the Second World War were named after British seaside towns, and they worked in coastal waters to clear the mines that threatened shipping in the Atlantic and the North Sea. The record dates the print only to between 1939 and 1945, and its caption data is unverified. It carries a number from the Office for Emergency Management, the U.S. wartime agency that produced and circulated photographs to publicize the war effort.

Created / published[between 1939 and 1945]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo. BO-614. Office for Emergency Management. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,044 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160792

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