Photo #: NH 80563
USS Gleaves (DD-423)
Afloat immediately after launching, off the Bath Iron Works shipyard, Bath, Maine, 6 December 1939.
The ship's five 5"/38 guns have already been installed, but her torpedo tubes have not. Note scaffolding around the forward funnel and generally incomplete superstructure.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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