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Photo #: NH 99998

USS Osborne
(Destroyer # 295)

Ship's Sponsors, Mrs. Harry Hutchins Fisher (Elizabeth Osborne) and Mrs. Channing C. Cox, in center front holding flowers, with their party at christening ceremonies held at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Squantum, Massachusetts, on 29 December 1919.
Mrs. Fisher was sister of Lieutenant Weedon E. Osborne, USN (Dental Corps), in whose honor the ship was named.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 22 January 2005