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Image: Camden Shipyard 1919

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Description: View of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey (USA), in May 1919. Seven Wickes-class destroyers and a Clemson-class destroyer are fitting out. These ships are (from left to right): USS Dickerson (Destroyer # 157, builder's hull # 216); USS Leary (Destroyer # 158, builder's hull # 217); USS Schenck (Destroyer # 159, builder's hull # 218); USS Herbert (Destroyer # 160, builder's hull # 219); USS Brooks (Destroyer # 232, builder's hull # 221); USS Hatfield (Destroyer # 231, builder's hull # 220); USS Babbitt (Destroyer # 128, builder's hull # 213) and USS DeLong (Destroyer # 129, builder's hull # 214). Note the triple torpedo tubes on the wharf in the center foreground, and the destroyer smokestacks in the lower left.
Title: Camden Shipyard 1919
Credit: Official U.S. Navy photo NH 43196 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Author: U.S. Navy
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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