• Home
• Tags

shiplaunching

103 photos tagged shiplaunching, from 10 members of Flickr Commons.

When were these photos taken?

Where were these photos tagged?

Show photos10% of these photos are geotagged.

Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos:

• ship
• shipyard
• warship
• unitedstatesnavy
• usnavy
• usn
• libraryofcongress
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• slipway
• battleship
• launch
• brooklyn
• brooklynnavyyard
• newyorknavalshipyard
• nynsy
• newyorkcity
• royalnavy
• navy
• newyorkshipbuilding
• shipchristening
• sunk
• cargoship
• destroyer
• pearlharbor

Members using this tag

• The Library of Congress 67 photos
• SDASM Archives 11 photos
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 8 photos
• North East Museums 8 photos
• Wilson Pres. Lib. 3 photos
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 2 photos
• Nasjonalarkivet (The National Archives of Norway) 1 photo
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo
• East Riding Archives 1 photo

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos:

Launching of "Vestal", Brooklyn, N.Y. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• TVL1970 said:

  See:
  

• swanq said:

  See
  

Gen. Grant and others at launch of "Vestal", Brooklyn, N.Y. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• TVL1970 said:

  See:
  

• swanq said:

  For information about the event, see
  

• swanq said:

  Major General and Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant were among the VIPs on the launching platform near the bow of the Vestal.

• swanq said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Dent_Grant
  "Frederick Dent Grant (May 30, 1850 – April 12, 1912) was a soldier and United States minister to Austria-Hungary. Grant was the first son of General and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Grant. He was named after his maternal uncle, Frederick Tracy Dent."
  
  His wife was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Marie_Honoré
  "Ida Marie Honoré Grant (June 4, 1854 – September 5, 1930) was an American socialite, philanthropist, and ambassador's wife."

• Jon (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks TVL1970 and swanq. We'll add some of this information to the photos in this series.

Saratoga CV3

from SDASM Archives

• Evan Dwyer said:

  After launch on 7 April 1925, in the Delaware River