YMS # 53 / Wheeler / Launching; on ways/ 7-24-42

black-and -white negative; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Whitestone
July 24, 1942
Kodak safety #92
overall: 4 x 5 in.

4X5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons at the Wheeler Whitestone, NY shipyard on July 24, 1942. Image is a longer distance port bow view of YMS-53 on the ways about to be launched with YMS-49 already in the water underway passing behind YMS-53 about to be launched. Stamped neg. sleeve: "104602F / 7/ 24 /42 / Launching at Wheeler of YMS-53 / [Box] 4739". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

YMS 53 yard minesweeper, Wheeler
1984.187.104602F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection