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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 98157

USS Broome
(Destroyer # 210)

Miss Mary Josephine Keyworth Broome, ship's Sponsor, with her party at Broome's christening ceremonies, 14 May 1919.
The ship was built at the William Cramp & Sons shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Miss Broome was granddaughter of Lieutenant Colonel John Lloyd Broome, USMC, in whose honor USS Broome was named. Her attendants, at left, are wearing the War Service uniform of the Emergency Aid.

Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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4 November 2002