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Photo #: NH 43153

Victory Destroyer Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum, Massachusetts


Head end of the building slips, photographed by Monks & Johnson, Boston, Massachusetts, between 27 April and 3 May 1919.
The destroyers under construction are, from left to right: Moody (Destroyer # 277), Henshaw (Destroyer # 278), Meyer (Destroyer # 279) and Doyen (Destroyer # 280). The ships' builders numbers (357, 358, 359 and 360) are shown on the scaffolding in front of each.
Note the unplated hull of Doyen, at right, and the coal bin in the lower left.

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25 February 2003