Photo #: NH 99528
USS Perkins (DD-877)
View looking forward from over her afterdeck, taken while the
ship was undergoing an inclining experiment at the Long Beach
Naval Shipyard, California, on 15 November 1962, at the conclusion
of her FRAM II modernization.
Note the weight-shifting track installed for the inclining experiment
and Perkins' after 5"/38 twin gun mount, with gun
barrels at near-vertical elevation.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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