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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 97861
USNS Josiah Willard Gibbs (T-AGOR-1)
Underway during the 1960s.
The A-frame on the starboard side just aft of the superstructure
is for her auxiliary research winch, which had 5,000 feet of
cable and a 10,000 pound maximum load.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph, from the Military Sealift Command Collection.
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