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Description
Officer taking three-point sextant fix while launch crew awaits results. Notehorizontal position of sextant. Ensign Charlie Molyneaux with sextant.Operations of ESSA Ship PATTON. (Image credit: Dan Twohig)
Photographer
Dan Twohig
Display Date
1967
Location
Alaska, Keku Strait
Collection
Historic Coast & Geodetic Survey
NOAA Affiliation
NOAA (ret.)