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• unitedstatesnavy
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• libraryofcongress
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
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• newyorkshipbuilding
• shipchristening
• sunk
• cargoship
• destroyer
• pearlharbor

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• 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

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Launch of concrete ship [CUYAMACA (San Diego)] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  The ship was side-launched on 1920 June 12. See calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/kt238nc3jk/

• Micah (LOC P&P) said:

  Thank you for the information on the launch date of the ship, swanq.

• Richard Norton said:

  www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100768486

Sarah A. Babbitt (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Christopher Cavas said:

  Sarah Babbitt was a descendant of Esek Hopkins, commander in chief of the fleet of the Continental Navy, who led an assault on the British colony at Nassau in the Bahamas in March 1776. Ms. Babbitt was the ship's sponsor for USS HOPKINS (Destroyer No. 249) and is seen at the ship's christening and launch on June 26, 1920 at New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, NewJersey.

• Art Siegel said:

  This is similar to a photo with Sarah Babbitt and her mother, dated June 26, 1920 by navsource.org: www.navsource.org/archives/05/pix2/0524911.jpg

• B-59 said:

  The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 27, 1920, p. 9, col. 5 reported that she was a great granddaughter of Esek Hopkins fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=ht...

• Karen (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks for providing information about this event. We'll add some of it to the catalog record when we next update.

Launch of destroyer 25, Japan (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Chronographer_AC said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Uzuki_(1925)

• Richard Norton said:

  www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3893647 Your link doesn't work because it truncated off at the parenthesis. That is why I use Wikidata Q-numbers.

• Richard Norton said:

  When will the "News in the 1910s" project be on a regular release schedule? We used to get 50 new releases every Friday. Half of the participants have dropped out from participating.