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The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Ernest G. Small (DD-838) Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, 21 November 1951, fitted with a temporary bow for transit to the United States to receive permanent repairs. She struck a mine off North Korea on 7 October 1951, resulting in the loss of her original bow and forward 5"/38 gun mount four days later. LST-1096 is in the right background, and LST-1101 is in the left background.

Ernest G. Small participated in the naval bombardment of Hungnam and was so occupied on 7 October when she struck a mine which seriously damaged her bow, killing 9 and wounding 18. Four days later heavy seas broke the bow off. As the watertight bulkhead doors could not withstand the pressure of traveling forward she travelled backward (with the help of a fleet tug) at 6 knots for 500 km to Japan, and she was fitted with a stubby replacement which enabled her to reach Long Beach, arriving on 18 December 1951. She was decommissioned on 15 January 1952 and the bow of the unfinished USS Seymour D. Owens (DD-767) was grafted to her hull.
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Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine U.S. Navy All Hands magazine January 1952, p. 15. Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-435673 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command.
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(Reusing this file)		 "All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official Department of Defense photographs unless otherwise designated."

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