Photo #: NH 43192
New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey
Aerial photograph, taken 24 July 1919. Facilities seen, from
left to right) are the original North Yard, the pre-World War
I Middle Yard, the wartime Destroyer Yard and the wartime Emergency
Fleet Corporation Transport Yard. The large transport fitting
out in Newton Creek, at right, is either Southern Cross
(later USS Wharton, AP-7), or American Legion (later
U.S. Navy AP-35 and APA-117). More Design 1029 and 1095 transports
are on the shipways in the middle of the view. Many incomplete
destroyers are also present.
Photographed by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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