From collection Elmer Montgomery Collection
USS CRAVEN DD-382
US Navy destroyer CRAVEN at MCRR Wharf, Rockland. Dramatic view from water looking up at bow. "I expect she might be resting between sea trials because Penobscot Bay Trial course was where all these vessels came for speed and fuel rate trials. Gridley class destroyer, the USS CRAVEN was launched February 1937 from the Bethlehem Steel Co.’s Quincy MA shipyard, commissioned in Sept., departed Norfolk August 1938. In the Pacific until 1945, when she sailed out of Portland in June for the Mediterranean. "
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LB2008.15.429
