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Photo #: NH 79053

USS Saturn
(1898-1922, later AG-4)

Near Vladivostok, Russia, unloading equipment for the Naval Radio Station, Vladivostok, over the ice in January 1919.
The supplies were hauled ashore on sleds using a long line drawn by a truck ashore. The radio station was built on Russkiy Island in Vladivostok harbor.

Donation of William W. Wilson, 1973.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 19 January 2008