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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 99529

USS Perkins
(DD-877)

Plan view aft, 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 inscription atop the box temporarily fitted at her stern: "leave aboard incline gear".

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

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13 September 2004