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Image Not Available for Sloop Satyagraha accompanying Committee for Nonviolent Action, Thames River, 1960
Sloop Satyagraha accompanying Committee for Nonviolent Action, Thames River, 1960
Image Not Available for Sloop Satyagraha accompanying Committee for Nonviolent Action, Thames River, 1960

Sloop Satyagraha accompanying Committee for Nonviolent Action, Thames River, 1960

PhotographerPhotographed by Frank Lorenzo American, 1928 - 2000
PhotographerPhotographed by United Press International American, founded 1907
Date1960 August 31
MediumPhotography
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 7 1/4 × 9in. (18.4 × 22.9cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Tracey Lorenzo Budrejko
DescriptionBlack and white photograph by United Press International (UPI) photographer Frank Lorenzo with typed caption.

Caption: NCH083101-9/1/60-GROTON, CONN.: Coast Guard boards the sloop Satyagraha for a safety inspection and made it return to dock, lack of enought life preservers. The sloop accompanied a group of pacifist across the Thames River, 8/31, in their fourth unsuccessful attempt to establish a vigil in protest to the construction of Polaris missile firing submarines. The atomic sub, George Washington, is shown (rear) in floating dry-dock of its builder, Electric Boat Div. of General Dynamics Corp. in Groton. UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL TELEPHOTO fl
Object number2023.82.545.2
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Image Not Available for Sloop Satyagraha accompanying Committee for Nonviolent Action, Thames River, 1960
Sloop Satyagraha accompanying Committee for Nonviolent Action, Thames River, 1960
Frank Lorenzo
1960 August 31
, 2000.194.32 © 2001 The Connecticut Historical Society.
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1953.5.187 © 2001 The Connecticut Historical Society.
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