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DescriptionBB-51 Montana.jpg
English: USS Montana (BB-51) under construction at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 3 January 1921. The view was taken from the shipway's overhead crane, looking forward over the ship's hull, with the after double-bottom structure in the foreground.
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