Photo #: NH 77893
USS Chaumont (AP-5)
Arriving at Shanghai, China, with the 6th Regiment, U. S. Marine
Corps, on 19 September 1937.
Assisted by the tugs St. Sampson and St. Dominic,
she is preparing to moor in "Man of War Row" in the
Whangpoo (Huangpu) River off the Shanghai Bund. The ships moored
in the row include the British cruiser Danae and sloop
Falmouth, the French cruiser Dumont d'Urville and
sloop Tahure, and the Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli.
The Dutch destroyer Van Galen is astern of Chaumont.
Courtesy of Rear Admiral J. P. Walker, USN (Ret.), 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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