Photo #: NH 42530
New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey
Destroyers fitting out, circa May 1919.
These ships are (from left to right):
Dickerson (Destroyer # 157, builder's hull # 216);
Leary (Destroyer # 158, builder's hull # 217);
Schenck (Destroyer # 159, builder's hull # 218);
Herbert (Destroyer # 160, builder's hull # 219);
Brooks (Destroyer # 232, builder's hull # 221);
Hatfield (Destroyer # 231, builder's hull # 220);
Babbitt (Destroyer # 128, builder's hull # 213) and
DeLong (Destroyer # 129, builder's hull # 214).
Note triple torpedo tubes on the wharf in the center foreground,
and destroyer smokestacks in the lower left.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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