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 Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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10 February 2003