File:USS Ballard (AVD-10) - 19-N-26639.tiff

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USS Ballard (AVD-10)   (  )
Photographer	Unknown authorUnknown author
Title	USS Ballard (AVD-10)
Description	English: View of the ship's forward portion, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 5 January 1942. Note details of her conversion from a destroyer to a seaplane tender, including: enlarged forward deckhouse; 3/50 dual-purpose gun on the forecastle; four .50 caliber machineguns atop the midships deckhouse; 26-foot motor whaleboat stowed alongside the two remaining smokestacks. Steam is being vented over the side from a hose just aft of the midships deckhouse. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Depicted place	Mare Island Navy Yard
Date	5 January 1942 date QS:P571,+1942-01-05T00:00:00Z/11
Collection	Naval History & Heritage Command    Parent institution United States Department of the Navy  Location Washington Navy Yard Established 1944  Website www.history.navy.mil  Authority file : Q3250126 VIAF: 1112145424606586830810 ISNI: 0000000121926193 LCCN: no2009080665 GND: 1104864061 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q3250126
Accession number	19-N-26639
Source	19-N-26639
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