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Photo #: NH 42064

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 gun is on the Moran Towing and Transportation Co. barge No. 30 outboard of Capella, and the Merritt and Chapman derrick Monarch is outboard of the barge ready to lift the gun. USS Maryland (BB-46) is across the pier.

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

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16 February 2003