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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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16 February 2003