Photo #: NH 103518
USS R-5 (Submarine # 82)
Sponsor, Miss Margaretta Wood (center, holding flowers), and
her party during the submarine's launching ceremony at the Fore
River Shipbuilding Company yard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 24 November
1918.
Standing immediately to her left are General and Mrs. Crozier.
Her parents, Rear Admiral and Mrs. S.S. Wood, are standing second
and third from the left, with Adm. Wood partially visible behind
his wife. Two French officers are among the others present.
Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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