Photo #: NH 107404
USS Converse (DD-291)
In the Delaware River on 2 May 1927, returning from a trial of her experimental Flettner rudder.
Note the rudder's large mechanism on the main deck at the stern.
Photographed Replogle, Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
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