Photo #: NH 99556
USS Conner (Destroyer # 72)
Ship's sponsor, Miss Elsa Diederich, with her party during Conner's
launching ceremonies, at the Cramp shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
21 August 1917.
Miss Diederich was great-great grand daughter of Commodore David
Conner, in whose honor the ship was named.
Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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