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26_0014999 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    Apparent structural test failure. LE=left elevator?

Whitehead_007 Whitehead Collection Image

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  • Old Salt said:
    This is probably the ex-APA-109 USS GRAFTON after she was purchased by the shipping company "American Mail Line" and renamed JAVA MAIL.

    "Following the end of Magic Carpet, Grafton sailed for Norfolk, Virginia via the Panama Canal and San Francisco, arriving in Hampton Roads on 21 March 1946. On 16 May she was decommissioned, and the next day returned for disposal to the US Maritime Commission.

    In 1947, the Maritime Commission sold Grafton to American Mail Lines, who registered her at Portland, Oregon and dubbed her Java Mail. She continued with that company until 1969, when she was sold on to Waterman Steamship Corporation who named her Carrier Dove. The vessel remained in service with Waterman Steamship until 1974, when she was sold to Taiwanese interests and scrapped at Kaohsiung on 28 May of the same year." Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Grafton_(APA-109)#:~:text=USS%20Grafton%20%28APA-109%29%20was%20a%20Bayfield%20-class%20attack,service%20in%201947%20and%20was%20scrapped%20in%201975.

26_0018370 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    Possibly strain gauges. These would possibly be used to measure deflection caused by a tension or compression load.

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