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40k | Preserver (ARS-8) underway, date and place unknown. | Craig Rothhammer via NAFTS National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors |
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165k | Forward plan view of Preserver (ARS-8) at Navy Yard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA., 28 March 1946. Preserver is outboard of Deliver (ARS-23). Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1243-46 |
Darryl Baker | |
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178k | Aft plan view of Preserver (ARS-8) at Navy Yard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA., 28 March 1946. Preserver is outboard of Deliver (ARS-23) Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1244-46 |
Darryl Baker | |
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89k | Preserver (ARS-8) moored, stern view, 2 March 1956, place unknown. | Melissa Fish for her father Robert Pooler USS Preserver, 1951-56 | |
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108k | Preserver (ARS-8) earned the Meritorious Unit Commendation award for service, from 11 March to 5 April 1968, in removing more than one million gallons of crude oil from the bow section of S/T Ocean Eagle, re-floating the wreck, towing it to sea and sinking it well beyond the shores of Puerto Rico. US Navy "All Hands" magazine, May 1979 |
Orlando Gallardo | |
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62k | Preserver (ARS-8) at anchor at the Space Shuttle Challenger salvage site, March 1986. US Navy photo by JOC(SS) Peter D. Sundberg USN, FLTAVCOMLANT NORVA. | Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | |
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64k | Preserver (ARS-8) in the Chesapeake Bay, during sea trials, circa 1983. | Charles Lagoueyte | |
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52k | Preserver (ARS-8) in the Chesapeake Bay, during sea trials, circa 1983. | Charles Lagoueyte | |
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60k | Preserver (ARS-8) underway, date and place unknown. | Tom Langford | |
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86k | Preserver (ARS-8) underway for the last time, not under her own power, as she is moved to Bay Bridge Enterprises yard at Chesapeake, VA., for dismantling, 30 November 2005 . | Mabel Clark | |
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