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Biggest and costliest yet. This is the radio room on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Chelan, the newest cutter of the service now anchored at the Navy Yard, Washington D.C. This radio room houses three transmitters and three receiving sets. On the maiden trip she picked up an SOS and towed a schooner 1,500 miles, a record tow. The cutter cost approximately $1,000,000. Ensign Leslie B. Tollaksen, is shown in the photograph

Biggest and costliest yet. This is the radio room on the U.S. Coast Gu...

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