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.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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