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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 98001

Ex-USS Valcour (AGF-1)


Hulk moored at the Solomons Branch of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory after being towed there from Norfolk on 20 March 1973.
Ex-Valcour was used to study the effects of electro-magnetic pulses on her electronic equipment at the EMPRESS facility at Point Patience. The poles of this facility, which transmitted EMP signals to the ship, are visible in the background.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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28 July 2002