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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">Spearfish headed up the Thames River, CT. in the summer of 1939. The city of Groton is in the background. On the hill is the Fort Griswold monument. | |||
<small>Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman.</small> | |||
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Spearfish after a wartime overhaul at Mare Island in 1943. She is showing all of the typical mid-war modifications. The two hatch-like openings in her fairwater below the forward gun deck are not hatches. They are ammunition storage lockers that housed ready service ammo for the 3"/50 caliber gun. While most boats received lockers like these, Spearfish was unusual in that actual hatch covers were used as opposed to a more simple style used on other boats. | |||
On the forward fairwater gun deck is a circular antenna for Radio Direction Finder (RDF) equipment. Mounted on the starboard side of the shears is a square-shaped antenna for Low-Frequency (LF) radio receiption. | |||
<small> | <small>U.S. Navy photo.</small> | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:25, 21 November 2023
Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman.
Spearfish after a wartime overhaul at Mare Island in 1943. She is showing all of the typical mid-war modifications. The two hatch-like openings in her fairwater below the forward gun deck are not hatches. They are ammunition storage lockers that housed ready service ammo for the 3"/50 caliber gun. While most boats received lockers like these, Spearfish was unusual in that actual hatch covers were used as opposed to a more simple style used on other boats.
On the forward fairwater gun deck is a circular antenna for Radio Direction Finder (RDF) equipment. Mounted on the starboard side of the shears is a square-shaped antenna for Low-Frequency (LF) radio receiption.
U.S. Navy photo.
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