This page features photographs of USS Matagorda taken during her construction at the Boston Navy Yard.
For additional images of USS Matagorda, see:
USS Matagorda (AVP-22), 1941-1949.
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
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Photo #: 19-N-30381 USS Humboldt (AVP-21) Being launched at the Boston Navy Yard on 17 March 1941. Her sister, USS Matagorda (AVP-22), on the adjoining slipway, was launched a day later. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 555 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-30389 USS Humboldt (AVP-21) Being launched at the Boston Navy Yard on 17 March 1941. Her sister, USS Matagorda (AVP-22), to the right on the adjoining slipway, was launched a day later. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 580 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-30410 USS Matagorda (AVP-22) On the ways shortly before launching at the Boston Navy Yard on 18 March 1941. Her sister, USS Humboldt (AVP-21), was launched from the adjoining slipway a day earlier. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 105KB; 560 x 765 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-30428 USS Matagorda (AVP-22) Being christened by Miss Nancy Rowland Brand, during launching ceremonies at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 18 March 1941. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 111KB; 740 x 600 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-30427 USS Matagorda (AVP-22) During her launching at the Boston Navy Yard on 18 March 1941. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 119KB; 740 x 595 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-30421 USS Matagorda (AVP-22) Just after her launching at the Boston Navy Yard on 18 March 1941. The stern of her sister, USS Humboldt (AVP-21), launched a day earlier, is visible to the left. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 585 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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For additional images of USS Matagorda, see:
USS Matagorda (AVP-22), 1941-1949.
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
29 December 2000