View of a ship with smoke coming off it from above

Title:: View of a ship with smoke coming off it from above
Name on Item:: Record-American, Bob Howard; Revere Airways Plane, Pilot Red Gorham
Date:: August 19, 1959
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Film negatives
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Brearley Collection
Subjects:: Aircraft carriers
Wasp (Aircraft carrier : CVS-18)
United States. Navy
Places:: Rhode Island > Washington (county) > Quonset Point (cape)
Extent:: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 format)
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Notes:: Title supplied by cataloger.
Additional information accompanying item: Wasp, U.S.S. Carrier - Air Shots after Fatal Blast Aug, 19-59
Caption: Wasp in port after fatal sea blast. Hangar Bay No. 1 explosion and fire took lives of two crew members and injured 20 others aboard carrier Wasp at sea. Here she makes Quonset, R.I., port. 'Copter engine, in routine test, ran wild and exploded when carrier was 250 miles east of Norfolk, Va. Heroic crew work prevented major disaster.
Notes (acquisition):: Gift; John Booras
Notes (date):: Date from item or material accompanying item.
Identifier:: 18_11_001503