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| Commanding officers of the jointly recommissioned destroyers USS Nicholas and USS O’Bannon at Mare Island, California, 15 Feb 1951. Commander Harry Mason (left; Nicholas) and Commander Daniel Carrison (right; O’Bannon). | Joint commissioning ceremony for USS Nicholas (left) and USS O’Bannon at Mare Island, Vallejo, California, 15 Feb 1951. Note Nicholas’s No. 2 gun mount has been replaced with a hedgehog anti-submarine spigot mortar. |
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