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File:Christening of USS Enterprise (CV-6) at Newport News in 1936.jpg

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Description Christening of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise at Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia (USA), on 3 October 1936. The "Big E" was sponsored by Lulie Swanson, wife of the acting U.S. Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson: "May she also say with just pride; 'I have done the State some service'" Partially quote from "Othello".
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Source PictionID:40987970 - Catalog:Array - Title:Array - Filename:AL-94 USS Enterprise Album _00006.TIF - Images from a photo album which belonged to Robert E. Messer, USN which shows life aboard the USS Enterprise --Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
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