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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42060

USS Capella (AK-13)


At the New York Navy Yard on 26 September 1922 with a 16" gun stowed on the port side forward for shipment to Pearl Harbor.
The stencilled inscriptions indicate this was an Army Model 1919M1 gun, probably serial number 1, with a shipping weight of 320,000 pounds.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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16 February 2003