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Photo #: NH 43166

Victory Destroyer Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum, Massachusetts


Interior of the wet slips, with the incomplete USS Putnam (Destroyer # 287, builder's Hull # 367) visible just behind the structural framework at left.
Note barrels and other components for 4"/50 guns, in the left foreground, and railroad tank cars.
Some of the material present is marked for Hulls 369 and 370 (respectively USS Flusser, Destroyer # 289, and USS Dale, Destroyer # 290).
Photograph is dated 18 November 1919.

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24 October 2002