Photo #: NH 42058
USS Capella (AK-13)
At the New York Navy Yard on 26 September 1922 loading an Army
16" gun on deck aft for shipment to Pearl Harbor.
The Merritt and Chapman derrick Monarch has been repositioned
alongside Capella after the removal of the barge that
had been between them. The derrick is ready to lower the gun
into stowage on deck.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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