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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.

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24 October 2002