YMS #53 / Wheeler / launching; sponsor

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 shipyard on July 24, 1942. Image is of the sponor with christening bottle in hand standing next to a naval office about to perform the luanching ceremony. Stamped neg. sleeve: 104614F 7/24/42 / Launching at Wheeler of YMS-53 / sponsor & ---- / [Box] 4793". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

YMS 53 yard minesweeper, Wheeler
1984.187.104614F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection