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Photo #: NH 43157

Victory Destroyer Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum, Massachusetts


Interior of the wet slips, with USS Bailey (DD-269, builder's Hull # 349) fitting out in the center. The less-advanced hull to the right may be USS Morris (DD-271). Of the ships represented on the "thermometer" progress chart at left, Hulls 346-348 -- Greene (DD-266), Ballard (DD-267) and Shubrick (DD-268) -- were completing outdoors at this time and Hull 345, USS Edwards (DD-265), had been commissioned on 24 April.
Photographed between 27 April and 3 May 1919 by Monks & Johnson, Boston, Mass.

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30 June 2000