Keywords: outdoor Lot-9438-6: Full Speed Ahead. With a 10,000-ton splash, USS Montpelier (CL 57) slides off its ways at launching ceremonies in Camden, New Jersey, February 12, 1942. The ship had been on the ways only 14 months – proof of the production miracle being accomplished in America’s giant naval construction program. New U.S. warships are being launched at a rate of one a day. Office of War Information Photograph, February 7-16, 1942. (2016/01/08). Lot-9438-6: Full Speed Ahead. With a 10,000-ton splash, USS Montpelier (CL 57) slides off its ways at launching ceremonies in Camden, New Jersey, February 12, 1942. The ship had been on the ways only 14 months – proof of the production miracle being accomplished in America’s giant naval construction program. New U.S. warships are being launched at a rate of one a day. Office of War Information Photograph, February 7-16, 1942. (2016/01/08). |