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Photo #: NH 84197

USS Moosehead
(IX-98).
Formerly USS Turner (DD-259)

Photographed circa April 1943 by Lieutenant Commander D.J. Spahr.
Note the Mark 4 ("FD") radar antenna atop her midships deckhouse and the boom attached to her foremast. The 4"/50 gun on Moosehead's foredeck was later replaced by a 3"/50.
Copied from "Flush Decks and Four Pipes", by Commander John D. Alden, USN., page 54.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1976.

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    Image posted 10 December 2010