Photo #: 19-N-50263 USS Absecon (AVP-23) Photographed on 17 January 1943 at Houghton, Washington, on a trial run shortly before commissioning. She has been specially fitted with twin cranes and a catapult to serve as a training ship for battleship and cruiser aircraft crews. The aircraft on the catapult is a Curtiss SO3C Seamew. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 625 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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5 January 2001