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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: K-92059

USS Trippe
(DE-1075)

Underway off Newport, Rhode Island, 22 December 1971.
Note the Basic Point Defense Missile System (BPDMS) launcher on her after deck, and the related fire control director atop her helicopter hangar. She was the first destroyer-type ship to be fitted with this system.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 110KB; 505 x 765 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-K-92059.
Though reproductions of this photo from the Naval Historical Center's collections are available in black & white only, those from the National Archives should be available in color.

 

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21 October 2004