Ladies Who Launch: Ship Christening Photographs from Delaware Valley Shipyards

SS Camden, 1920

Miss E. May Watson, sponsor, SS Camden, November 24, 1920. New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey.

This oil tanker was built for the Standard Oil Company, and was sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Oregon on October 3, 1942.

Independence Seaport Museum
New York Shipbuilding Corporation Collection
1967.310

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