Photo #: NH 99039
USS Spokane (CL-120)
Commander James B. Denny (center) relieving Captain William J.
Marshall as ship's Commanding Officer, during ceremonies on the
fantail, 28 October 1949. Spokane was then at the New
York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, N.Y., preparing to decommission.
Note the use of liferafts as a speakers' platform.
Photograph from the USS Spokane scrapbook, donated by
Rear Admiral John M. McIsaac, USN, 1974.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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