Crewmen prepare the deck of the Dutch heavy-lift ship MIGHTY SERVANT II to submerge and receive the guided missile frigate USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (FFG 58), docked at the pier in the background in the Persian Gulf. The MIGHTY SERVANT will transport the frigate, which was damaged when it struck an Iranian mine on April 14, 1988, to its home port in Newport, Rhode Island (RI)
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Base: Mighty Servant Ii
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Michael Harnar, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
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Date
03/07/1988
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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