Photo #: NH 43167
Victory Destroyer Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation,
Squantum, Massachusetts
Interior of the wet slips, with USS Lardner (Destroyer
# 286, builder's Hull # 366) fitting out at right. Further to
the right, with smokestacks barely visible behind the building
framework, is USS Putnam (Destroyer # 287, builder's Hull
# 367), which is also fitting out.
Note barrels, mountings, shields and base rings for 4"/50
guns, in the foreground, and warning signs. The largest of the
latter, at right, forbids smoking due to the presence of fuel
oil. Smaller signs state: "Coal Shortage" "Every
leak in air lines Means Waste of Coal".
Some of the material present is marked for Hull 370 (USS Dale,
Destroyer # 290).
Photograph probably taken circa 18 November 1919.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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