A view of several mobile cranes located around the oldest dry dock still in US Navy service. It was in this dry dock that the Federal warship USS MERRIMAC was converted into the ironclad CSS VIRGINIA in 1862
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Norfolk Naval Shipyard
State: Virginia (VA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery, USN (Ret.)
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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