Dead Reckoning: The Pollux-Truxtun Disaster

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Truxtun Christening, 2007
Truxtun Christening, 2007
View of the USS Truxtun DDG 103, at her christening ceremony, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2nd June, 2007.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2007. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.



Lanier Phillips and Edward Lewis, 2007
Lanier Phillips and Edward Lewis, 2007
Former shipmates and survivors of the 1942 Truxtun disaster Lanier Phillips and Edward Lewis with the crew of the new USS Truxtun DDG 103 at her christening ceremony, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2nd June, 2007.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2007. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.



Phillips and Lewis with Truxtun Crewmembers, 2007
Phillips and Lewis with Truxtun Crewmembers, 2007
Former shipmates and survivors of the 1942 Truxtun disaster Lanier Phillips and Edward Lewis with the crew of the new USS Truxtun DDG 103 at her christening ceremony, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2nd June, 2007.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2007. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.



Edward Lewis signing an autograph, 2007
Edward Lewis signing an autograph, 2007
USS Truxtun survivor Edward Lewis signs an autograph at the christening ceremony of the new USS Truxtun DDG 103, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2nd June, 2007.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2007. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.



Lanier Phillips with Two Crewmembers, 2007
Lanier Phillips with Two Crewmembers, 2007
USS Truxtun survivor Lanier Phillips with two crew members of the new USS Truxtun DDG 103, at her christening ceremony, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2nd June, 2007.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2007. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.



Lanier Phillips signing an autograph, 2007
Lanier Phillips signing an autograph, 2007
USS Truxtun survivor Lanier Phillips signs an autograph at the christening ceremony of the new USS Truxtun DDG 103, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2nd June, 2007.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2007. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.



Ship sponsors Roelker (L) and Martin, 2007
Ship sponsors Roelker (L) and Martin, 2007
Ship sponsors Carol Leigh Roelker (L) and Susan Scott Martin at the christening ceremony of the new USS Truxtun DDG 103, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2nd June, 2007.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2009. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.



Crisafulli, Martin and Rowsell, 2007
Crisafulli, Martin and Rowsell, 2007
Retired naval parson Fred Crisafulli (L) (brother of Truxtun victim Charles Carman Crisafulli), ship sponsor and descendant of Thomas Truxtun, Susan Scott Martin and Mayor of the town of St. Lawrence, Wayde Rowsell, at the christening ceremony of the new USS Truxtun DDG 103, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2nd June, 2007.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2007. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.



Shipmates Phillips and Lewis, 2007
Shipmates Phillips and Lewis, 2007
Shipmates and Truxtun survivors Lanier Phillips (L) and Edward Lewis shake hands at the christening ceremony of the new USS Truxtun DDG 103, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2nd June, 2007.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2007. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.



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