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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 53511

USS Henderson
(Transport # 1)

A close-up of the gyroscopic stabilizer installed in Henderson in April 1917 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
The casting of the gyro rotor weighed about 60,000 pounds.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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27 April 2004