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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)

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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)

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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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27/07/1985
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The U.S. National Archives
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