A sailor checks a control board in the No. 3 repair locker during a damage control drill aboard the guided missile frigate USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47). The NICHOLAS is en route to Naval Station, Charleston, S.C., following its deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm

A sailor manning the No. 3 repair locker during a damage control drill aboard the guided missile frigate USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47). The NICHOLAS is en route to Naval Station, Charleston, S.C., following its deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm

A mess management specialist works in the galley aboard the guided missile frigate USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47). The NICHOLAS is en route to Naval Station, Charleston, S.C., following its deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm

A sailor listens to a tape as he dusts the bulkhead fixtures in a passageway aboard the guided missile frigate USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47). The NICHOLAS is en route to Naval Station, Charleston, S.C., following its deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm

A quartermaster aboard the guided missile frigate USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47) uses a telescopic alidade to take a bearing off the coast of Bermuda as the ship returns to Naval Station, Charleston, S.C., following its deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm

Sailors aboard the guided missile frigate USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47) decorate the ship as it nears its home port at Naval Station, Charleston, S.C. The NICHOLAS left Charleston on September 21, 1990, for the Persian Gulf, where it served in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm

A sailor aboard the guided missile frigate USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47) hands out roses ordered by his fellow crew members as the ship heads up the Cooper River toward Naval Station, Charleston, S.C. The NICHOLAS is returning to Charleston following its deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm

A sailor checks a control board in the No. 3 repair locker during a damage control drill aboard the guided missile frigate USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47). The NICHOLAS is en route to Naval Station, Charleston, S.C., following its deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm

description

Summary

The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM

Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Scene Camera Operator: JO2 Oscar Sosa

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

date_range

Date

20/03/1991

place

Location

-14.59941, -28.67315

create

Source

The U.S. National Archives

link

Link

https://catalog.archives.gov/

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