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54k | Grasp (ARS-51) underway, date and place unknown. US Navy photo. |
USS Grasp (ARS-51) web site | |
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71k | Grasp (ARS-51) underway, 16 October 1985. US Navy photo # 851016-N-00000-001 |
USS Grasp (ARS-51) web site | |
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55k | Grasp (ARS-51) anchored over the crash site of TWA Flight 800 offshore of Moriches Inlet, Long Island, N.Y., she it conducts diving operations, 25 July 25, 1996. Navy divers conducted dives to recover victims of the crash and parts of the airplane to aid in the investigation. US DOD photo # 960725-N-6676W-026 by AN Charles L. Withrow. |
Bill Gonyo | |
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107k | Grasp (ARS-51) anchored over the crash site of TWA Flight 800 offshore of Moriches Inlet, Long Island, N.Y., she it conducts diving operations, 25 July 25, 1996. DOD photo |
Bill Gonyo | |
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30k | Grasp (ARS-51) moored pierside, date and place unknown. US Navy photo. |
USS Grasp (ARS-51) web site | |
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70k | Grasp (ARS-51) moored pierside at Barcelona, Spain, 1 January 1992 | Photo by Ignacio Lopez ex member Armada Espanola |
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97k | Grasp (ARS-51) underway, date and place unknown. US Navy photo. |
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47k | Grasp (ARS-51) moored at Naples, Italy, in June 1996. | Wendell McLaughlin | |
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96k | Grasp (ARS-51) gets underway, 18 July 1999, as her mooring lines are cast off by sailors assigned to the Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek port operations. Grasp assisted in search and recovery efforts for a private plane flown by John F. Kennedy Jr. and carrying his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and his sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette. The aircraft crashed July 17 off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Mass US Navy photo # 990718-N-6967M-006 by PH2 Shane T. McCoy. |
Bill Gonyo | |
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66k | Grasp (ARS-51) pulls into the Taranto Naval Base Mar Grande to participate in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) submarine escape and rescue exercise Sorbet Royal 2005, 17 June 2005. Grasp transported the Atmospheric Diving System 2000 (ADS 2000), Submarine Rescue Chamber Eight (SRC 8) along with members of the U.S. Navy's deep submergence unit. Twenty-seven participating nations, including 14 NATO nations will test their capabilities and interoperability. Four submarines with up to 52 crewmembers aboard will be placed on the bottom of the ocean, while rescue forces with rescue vehicles and systems work together to solve complex disaster rescue problems.
US Navy photo # 050617-N-1464F-001 by JOC Dave Fliesen. |
Navy Newsstand | |
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55k | Grasp (T-ARS-51) tows Ex-Des Moines (CA-134) up the Brownsville ship channel enroute to the ESCO scrapping yard, at Brownsville, TX., circa 2006. Photo ©Michael Martin, Brownsville, TX., 2006. |
TJ Tropea with permission of Michael Martin | |
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872k | Grasp (T-ARS-51) tows Ex-Des Moines (CA-134) up the Brownsville ship channel enroute to the ESCO scrapping yard, at Brownsville, TX., circa 2006. US Navy photo from the Military Sealift Command collection. |
Bill Gonyo | |
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