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NH 103518 USS R-5

Photo #: NH 103518 USS R-5
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Title: USS R-5
Description: (Submarine # 82) Sponsor, Miss Margaretta Wood (center, holding flowers), and her party during the submarine's launching ceremony at the Fore River Shipbuilding Company yard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 24 November 1918. Standing immediately to her left are General and Mrs. Crozier. Her parents, Rear Admiral and Mrs. S.S. Wood, are standing second and third from the left, with Adm. Wood partially visible behind his wife. Two French officers are among the others present. Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Catalog #: NH 103518
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