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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 105178

USS Neches
(Fuel Ship # 17, later AO-5)

Launching, at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 2 June 1920.
Panoramic photograph, taken by the Chester Photo Service, 39 Court Street, Boston.
Neches is in the center of the image. The U.S. Army Transport George Washington is at right, and USS New Jersey (Battleship # 16) is at left.
Note the crowd of onlookers on the ships, piers and buildings flanking Neches, and the large number of double-ended lifeboats in the right foreground.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 2 November 2007