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Photo #: NH 97073

USS Pittsburgh (CA-72)


Crewmen slip anchor stoppers in preparation for anchoring. On the order "let go", the anchor detail will knock out the single remaining stopper with a sledge hammer, starting the anchor on its way.
Pittsburgh is at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, during her initial post-reactivation trials, circa September 1951. She was recommissioned on 25 September.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

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29 October 1999