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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 84924

Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington


View from the east on 25 July 1941, taken from an aircraft based at Naval Air Station, Seattle, Washington.
Among the ships present are:
USS Barnegat (AVP-10) and USS Biscayne (AVP-11), fitting out on the near side of the long pier nearest the camera;
USS Casco (AVP-12) and USS Mackinac (AVP-13), under construction in the drydock nearest the camera;
USS Colorado (BB-45), alongside the middle of the three longest piers;
USS Utah (AG-16), in drydock in the right center of the photo;
USS Aroostook (AK-44, ex-CM-3) and USS Prometheus (AR-3), alongside the far side of the most distant long pier. Aroostook, at left. is being disassembled. Prometheus is being prepared for recommissioning.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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5 October 2004