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| Keywords: monochrome Lot-9427-18: Destroyer Doyle is Launched on St. Patrick’s Day. Irish-American workers fulfilled their promise to have the destroyer USS Doyle (DD 494, later DMS-34), launched on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 1942, at Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Company, Seattle, Washington. The ship’s sponsor Mrs. C.M. Maloney can be seen in the middle of the photograph. Doyle was reclassified as DMS-34 in June 1945 and was decommissioned ten years later. Ex-Doyle was sold in October 1972 and sold for scrap. Photograph released March 1942 by Office of War Information. (2015/11/20). Lot-9427-18: Destroyer Doyle is Launched on St. Patrick’s Day. Irish-American workers fulfilled their promise to have the destroyer USS Doyle (DD 494, later DMS-34), launched on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 1942, at Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Company, Seattle, Washington. The ship’s sponsor Mrs. C.M. Maloney can be seen in the middle of the photograph. Doyle was reclassified as DMS-34 in June 1945 and was decommissioned ten years later. Ex-Doyle was sold in October 1972 and sold for scrap. Photograph released March 1942 by Office of War Information. (2015/11/20). | ||||
