U.S. to have world's greatest ship-testing basin. Carderock, MD., March 21. Work is rapidly going forward on the new U.S. Navy ship- testing basin now under construction here. It will be the largest ship-testng basin in the world and will have cost three million dollars when completed, 3/21/38
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- 1938
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- Harris & Ewing
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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"U.S. to have world's greatest ship-testing basin. Carderock, MD., March 21. Work is rapidly going forward on the new U.S. Navy ship- testing basin now under construction here. It will be the largest ship-testng basin in the world and will have cost three million dollars when completed, 3/21/38" (1938). Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._to_have_world%27s_greatest_ship-testing_basin._Carderock,_MD.,_March_21._Work_is_rapidly_going_forward_on_the_new_U.S._Navy_ship-_testing_basin_now_under_construction_here._It_will_be_the_LCCN2016873253.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 298610.
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