Britain's ever-growing Navy: a huge destroyer on the stocks in a naval ship-building yard – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Britain's ever-growing Navy: a huge destroyer on the stocks in a naval ship-building yard, a historic print rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Britain's ever-growing Navy: a huge destroyer on the stocks in a naval ship-building yard
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A destroyer on the stocks of a British naval shipbuilding yard is the focus here, its hull rising in the open air and dwarfing the workmen beside it. The photoprint was reproduced in *The Illustrated London News* in June 1916, just after the Battle of Jutland, when public attention was fixed on the Royal Navy and its expansion. Destroyers were built in large numbers during the First World War, and the picture shows the scale of that effort. The yard and exact date are not confirmed, since the record draws on an unverified caption card.
| Created / published | 1916 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Subjects | Repro. of photoprint. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1916 June 10, p. 735. Reference copy may be in SSF - World War, 1914-1918--Industry, British--Boats and ships--1916. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Navies--England--1916; WWI...; Gt. Br.--Navy; Ships--Building; WWI--Navy; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,244 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141952 |
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