File:USS HW Gilmore (AS-16) before launching at Mare Island 1943.jpg

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The U.S. Navy submarine tender USS Howard W. Gilmore (AS-16) ready for launching at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California (USA), on 16 September 1943.

Note riveting and plating details on the ship's hull.
The billboard in the foreground celebrates the combat exploits of another ship built by the Mare Island Navy Yard, USS Wahoo (SS-238). There are War Bond posters to its left.
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Source Official U.S. Navy photograph 80-G-K-15091.
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