Title
Launching an escort destroyer in the United States, 1944.
Caption
Sideways launching, in the Ohio River, of an American DE-100 Christopher escort destroyer at the Wilmington (Delaware) shipyards of the Dravo Corporation, 1944.
This industrial group had two shipyards at Neville Island and Wilmington during World War II, building LST and LSM landing craft, escort destroyers and patrol boats. American shipbuilding produced 563 escort destroyers between 1942 and 1945.
Date
1944
Credit line
Photo12/Collection Bernard Crochet
Reference
CRO01169_015
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
12,7Mb (678,1Kb) / 7,9in x 6,3in / 2362 x 1884 (300dpi)