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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 45465

Salvage of USS Nevada (BB-36), 1941-42


The Hawaiian Dredging Company crane barge Gaylord and several tugs work to remove the large temporary patch from Nevada's port side, while she was being prepared for drydocking, 17 February 1942.
The patch had been fabricated by the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard but was not able to attain a watertight seal.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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24 November 2000