About These Photographs Having been "put in mothballs" after WWII, USS Rankin was recommissioned at Alameda, California in March 1952.   FT3 Robert Smith, a member of the recommissioning crew, took these photos of the ship's outfitting, shakedown, and first cruise from California through the Panama Canal to Norfolk, Labrador, and New York City.

February 1952 - Precommissioning barracks at Fleet Training Center, San Diego