Photo #: NH 43191
New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey
Aerial photograph, taken circa July 1919. The sheds on the left
cover the original North Yard. The light colored gantries in
the center are at the pre-World War I Middle Yard. The open ways
and the three-bay shed to their right are the Destroyer Yard
built for the Navy in 1917. The four open ways further to the
right were added during World War I for constructing transports.
The large transport fitting out beside the transport ways (in
the photograph's right center) is either Southern Cross
(later USS Wharton, AP-7), or American Legion (later
U.S. Navy AP-35 and APA-117). The transport fitting out to the
left is Wenatchee (later USS Henry T. Allen, AP-30
and APA-15). Many incomplete destroyers are also present.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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