Photo #: NH 99668
USS Black Hawk (AD-9)
Plan view, taken from off the starboard side amidships, while
she was at San Francisco Bay, California, 3 March 1943.
White outlines mark recent alterations, among them 20mm anti-aircraft
machine guns installed atop the midships deckhouse.
The transport S.S. Matsonia is in the background.
Note life rafts on Black Hawk, and white life ring with
the ship's name painted on it and line coiled inside (in the
boat in the lower left).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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