Photo #: NH 96331
USS Saturn (AF-40)
Firemen examine debris in the ship's Number Three Hold, after
a fire on board had killed fifteen workmen while the ship was
undergoing conversion to a refrigerator ship at the Norfolk Navy
Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, on 27 April 1944.
Copied from typescript "History of the Norfolk Navy Yard
in World War II", page 169. The original volume is in the
collections of the Navy Department Library.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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