i didn't take this shot but i'm in it...
this is the Samuel B. Roberts, FFG 58, on the Kennebec River at Doubling Point through Fiddler's Reach going out on sea trials...
if you look on the port side wing wall outside the pilot house you'll see me...
in the Persian Gulf April 18,1988, hit an Iranian M-08 mine on the port side (fr.276, approx. midship), 4 feet from the keel..
a hole 15' x 20' was blown in the hull, knocking the main engines off their foundations and almost breaking the ship in half, 10 injured...
later rebuilt at Bath Iron Works Portland Facility and returned to service.