Guests of honor bow their heads as CMDR. Charles E. Bourke, Chaplain Corps, gives the invocation during the commissioning ceremony for the guided missile frigate USS HAWES (FFG-53). Behind him are, left to right, Sen. George Mitchell (D-Maine), Commodore David Chandler, deputy commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, and CMDR. Thomas F. Madden, ship's commanding officer
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Bath
State: Maine (ME)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Carlos Drake
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
09/02/1985
Location
Trufant Ledge, 43.90147, -69.81310
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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