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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 99751

USS Calamares
(AF-18)

Plan view forward, seen from off the port side looking toward the pilothouse, while the ship was at Alameda, California, 11 April 1943.
Weight-shifting track spanning the deck indicates that an inclining experiment is in progress.
Note the life raft hung on the foremast shrouds and arrangement of booms and winches by the foremast.
White outlines mark recent alterations to the ship.

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

Online Image: 134KB; 740 x 630 pixels

 

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24 November 2004