R-7

R-7 approaching the finger piers at Submarine Base Pearl Harbor, approximately 1925. Note the extent to which the main deck had to be flared outward to form a sponson for the deck gun. The gun itself is elevated upward.

Photo by MMCM(SS) Rick Larson, USN (Ret.)

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