Photo #: NH 98888
USS Atlanta (IX-304)
Stress measuring device mounted on one of Atlanta's masts,
photographed as she was completing conversion to a weapons effects
test ship at the Hunters' Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco,
California, circa October 1964.
The original picture caption, released by 12th Naval District
Office of Public Information, reads: "Several hundred of
the measuring devices are placed throughout the ship. They are
calibrated to measure the amount of stress the blasts impose
on the ship and what, if any, damage was done."
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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