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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 19-N-47118

USS Houston (CL-81)


Ship's Sponsor, Mrs. Claude B. Hamill, prepares to christen Houston during launching ceremonies at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, 19 June 1943.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 475 pixels

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10 February 2003