USS Torsk Photo Album
December 16, 1944
Commissioning at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Chaplain LCDR Chester L Hults, USNR offers up prayers for ships officers and crew.
Rear Admiral Thomas Withers, USN addresses the officers and crew.
Commander Bafford E Lewellen reads orders of taking command to officers and crew.
Officers of USS Torsk at commissioning.
L-R:
LTJG K A Rawlings USNR
LT Roy F Werthmuller, USN
LTJG A E Reed, USNR
Commander Bafford E Lewellen, USN (CO)
LT Theodore S Roderick, JR USN
ENS L L Woodward, USN
ENS R S Smith, USNR
LTJG Henry W Marsh, JR USN