Keywords: 80-G-207958: Launching of USS Melvin (DD 680) at U.S. Steel’s Federal Shipyard, Kearny, New Jersey. Miss Gertrude Carlisle Bailey, sponsor of the destroyer named in honor of her grand uncle, Lieutenant John T. Melvin who lost his life in the First World War. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/01/12). 80-G-207958: Launching of USS Melvin (DD 680) at U.S. Steel’s Federal Shipyard, Kearny, New Jersey. Miss Gertrude Carlisle Bailey, sponsor of the destroyer named in honor of her grand uncle, Lieutenant John T. Melvin who lost his life in the First World War. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/01/12). |