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| North Africa occupation, June to July 1943 |
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30k | USS Vulcan (AR-5) at anchor, circa 1942, location unknown. US Navy photo. |
Robert Hurst | |
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59k | USS Vulcan (AR-5) underway, 10 January 1945, location unknown. | Robert Hurst | |
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126k | USS Vulcan (AR-5) moored pierside, NOB Norfolk, VA., with two destroyers alongside to port, circa early 1950s. Also visible in this photo are USS Randall (APA-224) moored at Pier 4, a heavy cruiser astern of USS Vulcan and in the far distance USS Hornet CVA-12. | Tom Langford | |
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133k | USS Vulcan (AR-5) underway, date and location unknown. | Bill McMillian | |
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44k | USS Vulcan (AR-5) underway, date and location unknown. | Federation of American Scientists web site |
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44k | USS Vulcan (AR-5) underway, date and location unknown. | Federation of American Scientists web site |
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59k | USS Vulcan (AR-5) was the first US warship in which women were deployed. She left Norfolk Virginia in September 1979 for the Navy's first Med deployment with a mixed crew, and is seen here at Barcelona, Spain, 23 December 1979; at the time, the presence of women aboard a warship was odd enough to attract the attention of the news media. | Photo by Fabio Peņa | |
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71k | USS Vulcan (AR-5) along with the rest of the Vulcan-class repair ships and their contemporaries, the Dixie-class destroyer tenders and Fulton-class submarine tenders, had their original battery of 5" guns removed in the 1970s and replaced by a minimal 20-mm armament. | Photo by Fabio Peņa | |
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52k | USS Vulcan (AR-5) at NOB Norfolk, VA., August 1985. | Rick Rowan | |
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90k | USS Vulcan (AR-5) underway, date and location unknown. | Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | |
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102k | USS Vulcan (AR-5) underway, date and location unknown. | Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | |
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581k | USS Vulcan (AR-5) moored pierside date and location unknown. | Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr | |
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53k | Ex-USS Vulcan (AR-5) under tow in Hampton Roads (Norfolk, VA. is in the background), 19 December 2006, while being moved from the James River National Defense Reserve Fleet to the breakers yard, Bay Bridge Enterprises LLC, Chesapeake, VA. for scrapping. | Mabel Clark | |
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163k | Ex-USS Vulcan (AR-5) at the ship breakers yard, Bay Bridge Enterprises LLC, Chesapeake, VA. for scrapping, circa February 2008. | Jerry Crow | |
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