The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 hovercraft, 1 submarine. Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take apart certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran. Portrait of the Palang's crew.

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© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 hovercraft, 1 submarine. Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take apart certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran. Portrait of the Palang's crew.
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
Artist/Maker (Iranian, 1944 – 2018)
DateFebruary 1978
MediumVintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
DimensionsImage: 6 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (16.5 × 24.1 cm) Sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.11
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Markings Verso, top middle, (stamp): "gamma, 11, rue des Petities - Ecuries, 75010 PARIS (France) - 770.64.46"

Verso, middle (typewriter): "12817 - IRAN, Photo d'archives, FEVRIER 1978

La marine iranienne: 22,000 hommes, trois destroyers, quatre fregates, quatre corvettes, cinq patrouillers, cinq draguers, deux navires de debarquement, quatorze hovercrafts, un sousmarin.
Faute de pieces detachees, la marine depecerait certains navires pour entretenir les autres, selon l'attache militaire americain a Teheran.

The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 Hovercraft, 1 submarine.
Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take aprt certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attache in Tehran.

Photo ABBAS - GAMMA (111521)

L'equipage du PALANG
The PALANG's crew."
Inscribed Verso, bottom left, sideways (pencil): "JA-604"

Verso, bottom right (pencil): "2025.30.11"
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 hovercraft, 1 submarine. Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take apart certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran. Bandar Abbas provisions the Palang on the high seas.
Abbas Attar
Date: February 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2025.30.13
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 hovercraft, 1 submarine. Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take apart certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran. A hovercraft doing a landing exercise at Kark.
Abbas Attar
Date: February 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2025.30.12
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
The Iranian Navy: 22,000 men, 3 destroyers, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 5 patrol boats, 5 dredgers, 2 landing craft, 14 hovercraft, L submarine. Because of a lack of spare parts, the navy is said to take part certain ships in order to repair others, according to the U.S. military attaché in Tehran, Iran
Abbas Attar
Date: February 1978
Medium: Vintage resin-coated gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.4
U.S. Navy Visit Paris: Coming from Norfolk, Virginia, three cruisers of the U.S. Navy, the New York, the Wyoming and the Texas, called at Le Havre, where they lay for 10 days. Officers and men took this opportunity of visiting Paris, which most of them did not know. (Crews members line up for taxis.)
U.S. Navy Visit Paris: Coming from Norfolk, Virginia, three cruisers of the U.S. Navy, the New York, the Wyoming and the Texas, called at Le Havre, where they lay for 10 days. Officers and men took this opportunity of visiting Paris, which most of them did not know. (Crews members line up for taxis.)
Date: 1935-1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.226
Radoub d'une Barque à Marée Basse (Repair of a Boat at Low Tide), plate 4 from the series "Six Marines"
Radoub d'une Barque à Marée Basse (Repair of a Boat at Low Tide), plate 4 from the series "Six Marines"
Eugène Isabey
Date: 1833
Medium: Lithograph on chine appliqué
Object number: 1993.3
© Matthew Pillsbury.
Gare Du Nord, Thursday, December 4th, 2008, 5:54-5:59pm
Matthew Pillsbury
Date: 2008
Medium: Archival pigment print
Object number: 2025.30.142
Ecclesiastes II:5, from the series "Etchings from Ecclesiastes"
Ecclesiastes II:5, from the series "Etchings from Ecclesiastes"
William Majors
Date: 1965
Medium: Etching
Object number: 2003.15.3
Photo by John Bentham.
Buffalo Hunt, Chase, plate 5 from the "North American Indian Portfolio"
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.109
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Germination No. 5
Hideo Hagiwara
Date: January 1966
Medium: Woodblock
Object number: 1984.146
#5. From His Hooves Fell the Celestial Spheres
#5. From His Hooves Fell the Celestial Spheres
Date: 1981
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.242
The Great Battle of Inkerman Fought Nov. 5, 1854
The Great Battle of Inkerman Fought Nov. 5, 1854
Stimson & Co.
Date: c. 1854
Medium: Hand-colored wood-engraving on paper
Object number: 1959.163
(5 compositions with building)
(5 compositions with building)
William C. Palmer
Date: 1945
Medium: Ink on paper
Object number: WCP.392.7