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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 95455

Seydlitz (German heavy cruiser)

Launching ceremony, at the Deschimag Shipyard, Bremen, Germany, on 19 January 1939.
This ship was not finished, though she was 95% complete when construction stopped in mid-1942.
Note her "clipper" bow and the many umbrellas carried by onlookers.

The original print came from U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence files.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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2 January 2003