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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 70789

USS Chicago (CL-29)


Being prepared for launching, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 8 April 1930.
Note her "clipper" bow and bulbous underwater forefoot.

Courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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24 October 2001