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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