PT 103 launching at Elco dockside, starboard bow view

black-and -white negative; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NJ, Bayonne
May 16, 1942
safety film, Kodak # 38
overall: 4 x 5 in.

4X5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons off Bayonne, New Jersey May 16, 1942. Image is of PT 103 being lowered into the water dockside at the Elco Naval Division works. View is of the starboard side, bow included. PT 103 was the first boat of the new eighty-foot class of Elco boats completed and launched into the East River in Bayonne, New Jersey. Stamped neg. sleeve: "103966F 5/16/42 / Launching of PT-103 at Elco / [Box] 4728". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. DUP 1

PT #103 motor torpedo boat, Elco
1984.187.103966F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection