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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.

Online Image: 105KB; 900 x 750 pixels

 

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    Image posted 18 November 2010