Photo #: NH 70715
USS Chicago (CL-29)
View atop the upper deck, looking aft from amidships on the port
side. Taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in 1931,
probably at the time of her commissioning.
Note motor launches, boat crane and tripod mainmast. Guns at
right are 5"/25s, with their ready-service ammunition lockers
inboard.
Ex-USS Thompson (DD-305) is in the right background, being
stripped for scrap.
Courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1970.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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