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19-N-49139 USS Nashville (CL-43)

Photo #: 19-N-49139 USS Nashville (CL-43)
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Title: USS Nashville (CL-43)
Description: Plan view amidships, looking aft along the starboard side, with the ship's forward superstructure emphasized. Taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 30 July 1943. Note the Mark 33 (lower, with rear toward the camera) and Mark 34 gun directors, with the antenna of a Mark 8 fire control radar atop the Mk. 34; antenna for a SK-1 search radar atop the foremast; lightly armored conning tower at the front of the bridge; floater nets atop the number three 6/47 triple gun turret; and shipyard railway crane on the pier. Circled areas have recently received modifications. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: 19-N-49139
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