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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 99007

USS Tarpon
(SS-175)

Senior Navy officials attend the ship's launching ceremonies, at the Electric Boat Company shipyard, Groton, Connecticut, 4 September 1935.
Those present are, from left to right:
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Roosevelt;
Rear Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus, President, Naval War College;
Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen, Chief, Bureau of Engineering;
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, Chief, Bureau of Construction and Repair; and
Admiral William H. Standley, Chief of Naval Operations.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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17 December 2003