Image: Aerial view of the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California (USA), circa in 1918 (NH 42535)
Description: Aerial view of the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California (USA), photographed during World War I, with four-piper destroyers under construction at the Risdon Iron Works in the lower right. Four submarines and one destroyer hull in dry-dock are at the piers in the center, along with some large merchant ships. Risdon, part of Union, is to the lower right of the ink line. 1: Cafeteria, 2: Store room, 3: Iron Foundry, 4: Brass Foundry, 5: Machine shop, 6: Pattern shop, 7: Erecting machine shop, 8: Administration building, 9: Power house, 10: office building, Government offices, 11: Blacksmith shop, 12: Bioler shop, 13: Joiner shop, 14: Joiner shop, annex with oil storage tanks underneath, 15: Warehouse and office building, 16: Pipe and copper shop, 17: Steel storage, 18: Plate shop, 19: Gate house, 20: Building slips 4&5, 21: Building slips 1.2 & 3, 22: Wharf #2, 23: Wharf #3, 24: Floating dock, capacity 2000 tons, 25: Floating dock, capacity 6500 tons, 26: Wharf #4, 27: Wharf #5, S: Storage space 2: Risdon Plant shown south and east of red lines: 1: Copper storage, 2: Oil tank, 3: Office building, 4: Office building, 5: Yarrow boiler shop, 6: Warehouse, 7: Power house, 8: Blacksmith shop, 9: Storehouse, 10: Sheet metal shop, 11: Sheet metal shop, 12: Marine machine shop, 13: Wharves, 14: Wharves, 15: Wharves.
Title: Aerial view of the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California (USA), circa in 1918 (NH 42535)
Credit: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 42535
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