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Photo #: NH 42645

USS Porpoise (SS-172)


Commissioning ceremony, at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 15 August 1935.
At the head of the gangway, Captain A.W. Brown is reading commissioning orders to the new submarine's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Stuart S. Murray, and the rest of her officers and crew. A Chief Petty Officer is by the flagstaff, ready to hoist the National Ensign.

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18 September 2003