Close-up view of Major Alec Sim from the Kentish Guards, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, at the commissioning ceremony of the Los Angeles class nuclear-powered attack submarine USS PROVIDENCE (SSN 719)
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Naval Submarine Base, Groton
State: Connecticut (CT)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: Unknown
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Beginning in ancient times, humans sought to operate under the water. The legendary origins of the submarine stretch back to 332 BC with a tale about Alexander the Great being lowered into the sea in a glass barrel to study fish. The submarine concept was thereafter consigned to the backwaters of history for some 1,800 years. This collection presents various submarines: from small and simple to nuclear-powered underwater behemoths.
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Date
27/07/1985
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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