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.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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