Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome black and white 330-PS-155 (USN 707658): Elder Survivors Board USS Comstock (LSD 19). Twenty-Six members of the crew of the net layer USS Elder (AN 20) are shown boarding Comstock. Although an emergency canvas sling was prepared, the men were able to climb the deck of ship without assistance after more than 7 days adrift in open life rafts, and explosion in the engine room spaces of the net tender. Elder necessitated an order by the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant William F. Adams, USN, to abandon ship. There were no casualties although the men in the rafts suffered from fatigue and exposure. U.S. Navy radiophone photograph, released March 28, 1950. (8/18/2015). 330-PS-155 (USN 707658): Elder Survivors Board USS Comstock (LSD 19). Twenty-Six members of the crew of the net layer USS Elder (AN 20) are shown boarding Comstock. Although an emergency canvas sling was prepared, the men were able to climb the deck of ship without assistance after more than 7 days adrift in open life rafts, and explosion in the engine room spaces of the net tender. Elder necessitated an order by the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant William F. Adams, USN, to abandon ship. There were no casualties although the men in the rafts suffered from fatigue and exposure. U.S. Navy radiophone photograph, released March 28, 1950. (8/18/2015). |