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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 74474

USS Boston
(1887-1946)

View inside the deckhouse at after end of the main deck, showing wooden roof trusses and other structural elements. Taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 23 December 1918, following Boston's conversion for service as the receiving ship at Yerba Buena Island, California.
Note the steam-heating radiators along the deckhouse sides, and the semi-finished oars on the deck.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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30 January 2003