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.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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