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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