Photo #: NH 70684
Mare Island Navy Yard, California
Six destroyers docked at one time in the Yard's concrete Dry
Dock # 2, during the 1920s. These ships are all members of Destroyer
Division 36. The three in front are (from left to right): USS
Farenholt (DD-332), USS Sumner (DD-333) and USS
Hull (DD-330).
The drydock's dimensions, as given on the photograph, are 740
feet in length and 120 feet in width, with 30 feet of water over
the sill.
Courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1970.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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