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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 99524

USS Perkins
(DD-877)

View looking aft from over the ship's foredeck, taken while she was undergoing an inclining experiment at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, California, on 15 November 1962, at the conclusion of her FRAM II modernization.
Note radio antenna carried atop her # two 5"/38 twin gun mount; Hedgehog anti-submarine mortars fitted alongside the pilothouse, and Mark 37 gun director mounted atop the forward superstructure.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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13 September 2004