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Photo #: 80-G-455906 (complete caption)

Balboa Harbor, Panama Canal Zone

Aerial photograph taken 23 April 1934, with U.S. Fleet cruisers and destroyers moored together.
Ships present include (left to right in lower left):
USS Elliot (DD-146);
USS Roper (DD-147);
USS Hale (DD-133);
USS Dorsey (DD-117);
USS Lea (DD-118);
USS Rathburne (DD-113);
USS Talbot (DD-114);
USS Waters (DD-115);
USS Dent (DD-116);
USS Aaron Ward (DD-132);
USS Buchanan (DD-131);
USS Crowninshield (DD-134);
USS Preble (DD-345); and
USS William B. Preston (DD-344).

(left to right in center):
USS Yarnall (DD-143);
USS Sands (DD-243);
USS Lawrence (DD-250);
(unidentified destroyer);
USS Detroit (CL-8), Flagship, Destroyers Battle Force;
USS Fox (DD-234);
USS Greer (DD-145);
USS Barney (DD-149);
USS Tarbell (DD-142); and

USS Chicago (CA-29), Flagship, Cruisers Scouting Force.

(left to right across the top):
USS Southard (DD-207);
USS Chandler (DD-206);
USS Farenholt (DD-332);
USS Perry (DD-340);
USS Wasmuth (DD-338);
USS Trever (DD-339);
USS Melville (AD-2);
USS Truxtun (DD-229);
USS McCormick (DD-223);
USS MacLeish (DD-220);
USS Simpson (DD-221);
USS Hovey (DD-208);
USS Long (DD-209);
USS Litchfield (DD-336);

USS Tracy (DD-214);
USS Dahlgren (DD-187);
USS Medusa (AR-1);
USS Raleigh (CL-7), Flagship, Destroyers Scouting Force;
USS Pruitt (DD-347); and
USS J. Fred Talbott (DD-156);
USS Dallas (DD-199);

(four unidentified destroyers);
and
USS Indianapolis (CA-35), Flagship, Cruisers Scouting Force.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 298KB; 1200 x 970 pixels

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17 April 2002