File:US warships off Yantai, China, in the late 1930s.jpg

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Description U.S. Navy warships inside and outside the breakwater at Yantai (formerly known as Chefoo or Chih-fou), China, circa the later 1930s. Among the ships present are the destroyer tender USS Black Hawk (AD-9), in left center, with a nest of four destroyers alongside: USS Whipple (DD-217) is the outboard unit of these four. USS Heron (AM-10) is alongside the breakwater, at right, with a Grumman JF Duck amphibian airplane on her fantail. Another JF is floating inside the breakwater, toward the left. Two Chinese sampans are under sail in the center foreground The four destroyers outside the breakwater are (from left to right): USS Stewart (DD-224), unidentified, USS Bulmer (DD-222) and USS Pillsbury (DD-227).
Date 1930s
date QS:P,+1930-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Source Official U.S. Navy photo NH 90544-KN from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Author Color-tinted photograph by the Ah-Fung O.K. Photo Service. Collection of James E. Thompson, 1979. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

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