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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