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Photo #: S-511-27 "Submarine Rescue Vessel (A.S.R.) - Design Study "A"" Preliminary design plan prepared for the General Board during the process that produced the Chanticleer (ASR-7) class. This plan, dated 17 October 1940, depicts a 1575-ton (light displacement) 240-foot (between perpendiculars) design of about the same size as that actually adopted. Scale of the original drawings is 1/16" = 1'. The original plan is in the 1939-1944 "Spring Styles Book" held by the Naval Historical Center. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 869KB; 3000 x 2490 pixels

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Image posted January 2003
Rescanned and reposted 1 March 2005