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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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23 December 2003