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2003.48.10 - Portrait of a sailor
Color photograph of John Mitchell, ET3c posing for a photograph on the dock adjacent to the BRISTER. Label on reverse reads: "John M. Mitchell ET3 // Charleston, S.C. 1956."
Record Type: Photo
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2003.48.11 - Sailors with family
Color photograph of sailors and civilians walking on the fo'c'sle of a the BRISTER. This probably took place when she was recommissioned as a radar picket ship, July 1956. Label on reverse reads: "USS Brister DER-327 // Looking Forward."
Record Type: Photo
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2003.48.12 - Coming alongisde USS HISSEM (DER-400)
Color photograph taken from the BRISTSER of USS HISSEM (DER-400). Label on reverse reads: "Approaching the USS Hissem // DER-400. May 1957."
Record Type: Photo
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2003.48.13 - Alongside USS HISSEM (DER-400)
Color photograph of the BRISSTER coming alongside USS HISSEM (DER-400). Label on reverse reads: "Pulling along side of // the USS Hissem DER-400. May 1957."
Record Type: Photo
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2003.48.15 - High line transfer
Color photograph taken from the BRISTER of a high line transfer to USS HISSEM (DER-400). Note the HISSEM crew on deck in orange life preservers. Label on reverse reads: "High lineing parts to the // USS Hissem DER-400. May 1957."
Record Type: Photo
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2003.48.2.1-.2 - Crew on the fantail
Color photographic print, group of sailors gathered on the fantail. Rack of depth charges visible at left of image. Handwritten inscription on back reads: "Caribbean Sept. 1956 USS Brister Crew DER-327."
Record Type: Photo
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2003.48.3.1-.2 - Rough seas
Color photographic print of the BRISTER battling weather off the coast of Virginia. Handwritten inscription on back reads: "160 miles off Coast of Virginia March/April 1957 // DER-327."
Record Type: Photo
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2003.48.4.1-.2
Color photographic print of the BRISTER battling rough weather off the coast of Virginia. Handwritten inscription on back reads: "160 miles off Coast of Virginia March/April 1957 // DER-327."
Record Type: Photo
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2003.48.5.1-.2 - Depth charge practice
Group of sailors and officers working on the fantail of a ship. One row of depth charges along starboard side. Handwritten inscription on back reads: "Depth charge run in Caribbean Sept. 1957 // DER-327."
Record Type: Photo
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2003.48.6.1-.2 - Depth charge practice
A depth charge explodes shortly after its release from the stern rack. Handwritten inscription on back reads: "Depth charge run in Caribbean Sept. 1957 // DER-327."
Record Type: Photo
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2003.48.8 - Recommissioning as a radar picket
Color photograph of the recommissioning ceremony for the BRISTER after conversion to a radar picket ship at the Charleston Naval Shipyard. Label on reverse reads: "July 21, 1956 USS Brister // Recomissioning Ceremony // Charleston Naval Shipyard."
Record Type: Photo
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2003.48.9 - Recommissioning as a radar picket
Color photograph of the recommissioning ceremony of the BRISTER as a radar picket ship at the Charleston Naval Shipyard, 21 July 1956. A large group of officers and enlisted sailors, presumably the BRISTER's new crew, are gathered on the fantail. Label on reverse reads: "July 21, 1956 USS Brister // Recomissioning Ceremony // Charleston Naval Shipyard."
Record Type: Photo
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2004.3.1 - Recommissioning program
Recommissioning ceremony program for the BRISTER, 21 July 1956, at the Charleston Naval Shipyard.
Record Type: Archive
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2004.3.2 - Recommissioning invitation
Invitation to the recommissioning ceremony of the BRISTER as a radar picket ship, 21 July 1956, at the Charleston Naval Shipyard.
Record Type: Archive
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2005.64.3 - Order of the Golden Dragon
Order of the Golden Dragon commemorative card issued to John Fasano, MoMM2c dated 4 August 1945. This designates Fasano as someone that has crossed the International Date Line. This orange colored card features an image of a mermaid and a dragon in background.
Record Type: Archive
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2005.64.4 - Ship pass
A pass issued to John Fasano of the BRISTER dated 12 December 1943 by the Todd Galveston Dry Docks Inc. while the ship was in Galveston. This was two weeks after the ship's commissioning at Orange, Texas. His name and signature as well as the stamp of the BRISTER and the commanding officer, Lt. Cmdr. Lawton H. Crosby, is visible on the front. Rules of the yard are written on the reverse.
Record Type: Archive
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2007.34.13 - BRISTER in Marseille, France
Sepia toned photographic print of five destroyer escorts docked together in a waterfront town. From left to right: USS BRISTER (DE-327), Unknown DE, USS FINCH (DE-328), USS KRETCHMER (DE-329), USS THOMAS J. GARY (DE-326). Handwritten inscription on back reads: "Marseille, France // May 10, 1946 // V.E. Day."
Record Type: Photo
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2007.34.15 - World Cruise list
Typed listing of the BRISTER's World Cruise dated 1 April 1946.
Record Type: Archive
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XX.2.347 - Underway
14" x 11" black and white photograph of the BRISTER in her late war measure 21 paint scheme. Date and location unknown.
Record Type: Photo
