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Photo #: 80-G-81255

USS Lewis Hancock (DD-675)


The ship's sponsor, Lieutenant Joy Bright Hancock, USNR, prepares for the christening, during launching ceremonies at the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey, 1 August 1943.
The ship was named in honor of Lieutenant Hancock's late husband, Lieutenant Commander Lewis Hancock, USN, who was killed in the crash of USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) in 1925.

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

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22 February 2000