Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97880

USNS Josiah Willard Gibbs (T-AGOR-1)


Crewman lashing a spare anchor to the cable guide for the ship's deep-sea winch.
The cable guide appears to have received much hard use since its installation in around 1959, and the anchor was probably needed to provide it additional strength and rigidity. The cable guide supported the cable between the tractor winch, visible behind the crewman, and the "O" frame on the ship's stern.

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

Online Image: 108KB; 595 x 765 pixels

 

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

24 February 2002