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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97879

USNS Josiah Willard Gibbs (T-AGOR-1)


Team conducting at-sea tests of the ship's deep-sea winch, probably soon after installation in around late 1959.
The test team is preparing the winch's cable for attachment to a tug boat. The subsequent strain test showed that the winch was capable of handling 45,000 pounds, 5,000 pounds over its designed limit.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph, from the Military Sealift Command Collection.

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24 February 2002