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View of USS NEVADA (BB-36) on the shipway at Fire River Shipbuilding Co in Quincy, Massachusetts, the day before her launch.
Photographed on July 10, 1914.
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View of USS NEVADA (BB-36) on the shipway at Fire River Shipbuilding Co in Quincy, Massachusetts, the day before her launch.
Photographed on July 10, 1914.
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Argentine battleship ARA Rivadavia under construction, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, December 2nd 1912.
Stricken from the naval register and scrapped in 1957. more
Hull of VERMONT (BB-20) after being launched at the Fore River Shipyard.
Date: August 31, 1905
Digital Collections Massachusetts Collections Online: LS1035
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On October 3, 1925, LEXINGTON (CV-2) was launched at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts. She was sponsored and christened by Mrs. Theodore D. Robinson, wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
"At the time she was the longest vessel in the world, the biggest ship ever constructed in this country and the fastest vessel afloat (destroyers excepted)."
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 69053, 80-CF-21126-3, 80-CF-21126-6, 80-CF-21126-4, 80-CF-21126-2, 80-CF-21126-1
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USS MASSACHUSETTS (BB-59) underway at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts.
Note: she is painted in modified Camouflage Measure 12 and her radars have not been installed yet.
Photographed in early May 1942.
United States Navy, "A pictorial history of the U.S.S. Massachusetts" (1945). World War Regimental Histories. 150. https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/150
USS NEVADA (BB-36) shortly after her launch on July 11, 1914. She was tied to a pier at Fore River for fitting out.
Note: her lack of belt armor and superstructure.
Photographed by Warren S. Parker, likely in late July to early August 1914.
Digital Commonwealth, Massachusetts Collections Online: LS1037
USS MASSACHUSETTS (BB-59) departing Fore River Shipyard for Boston Harbor, Massachusetts.
Note: she lacks her Vought OS2U Kingfisher spotter floatplanes.
Date: May 1942
United States Navy, "A pictorial history of the U.S.S. Massachusetts" (1945). World War Regimental Histories. 150. https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/150
Launch of USS WASP (CV-7) at the Fore River Shipyard, Massachusetts.
Date: April 4, 1939
Densho Digital Respository: ddr-njpa-13-48
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