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NH 70793 USS Chicago (CL-29)

Photo #: NH 70793 USS Chicago (CL-29)
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Title: USS Chicago (CL-29)
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Description: Fitting out at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 11 April 1930, the day after she was launched. Her foremast is being lowered into position by the 150-ton floating crane. Destroyers nested in the center distance are (from left to right): USS Badger (DD-126); USS Claxton (DD-140); USS Philip (DD-76); USS Broome (DD-210); and the stricken Corry (ex DD-334), which is being scrapped. See Photo # NH 70793 (cropped) for a closeup view of these ships, cropped from this photograph. Courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1970. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 70793
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