Brooklyn Navy Yard - Photo #116 - Other Ships
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US Navy
Sliding backwards down the WPA-PWA-built 1100-foot-long shipways, the battleship USS
North Carolina
is launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 13 June 1940. In just two weeks, the keel of the
Iowa
would be laid in the same ways.