Photo #: NH 98283
USS Boston (CAG-1)
Underway off the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts,
after overhaul, 26 July 1960.
Note the new electronics antennas received during this overhaul,
among them a Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) "pot"
atop the mainmast, antenna for SPS-29 air search radar (replacing
a SPS-12) atop the pedestal aft of the mainmast, and two SPQ-5
guided-missile guidance radars (replacing the ship's original
pair of Mark 25 Mod 7 types) just forward of the "Terrier"
missile launchers.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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