PHOTO GALLERY FOUR:
CONSTRUCTION IMAGES
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View of temporary track for crane servicing ERIE in Dry Dock #1 in which cradle and staging work has begun, 14 Dec 1934.
View of aft section of keel ready for laying in cradle and staging, 14 Dec 1934.
Cradle and staging completed and ready to receive keel sections, 14 Dec 1934.
View toward stern, after a section of keel has been positioned on cradle and staging, 14 Dec 1934.
First rivets are driven in a keel section by hand, 17 Dec 1934.
Rivets being driven pneumatically in a section of the keel. In background is Mrs. Edmund Knoll, of Erie, PA, the ERIE’s sponsor, and the command staff of New York Naval District, 17 Dec 1934.
View of stern keel section after assembly of bulkhead # 78, 28 Dec 1934.
View of forward keel section with bulkhead # 78 assembled, 28 Dec 1934.
View of bow section as fabricated in Shop # 11, 1 Feb 1935.
View of stern keel section as fabricated in Shop # 11, 1 Feb 1935.
View of completed stern section fabricated in shop and ready for transport to dry dock, 1 Feb 1935.
View of work on platform deck compartments, from stern forward, 29 Mar 1935.
View of second deck being completed forward, while main deck takes shape amidships, 29 Mar 1935.
Main deck being assembled, 25 Jun 1935.
Main deck nearly completed, 25 Jun 1935.
Navigational bridge under construction, 27 Sep 1935.
Forward main deck compartments and platforms of No. 1 and No. 2 (above main deck compartment) 6-inch guns under construction, 27 Sep 1935. USS HULL, DD-350 is visible to the right.
View toward starboard quarter. Tripod mast is under construction forward, and platforms for aft six-inch guns are completed, 6 Jan 1936.
View of dropping of champagne bottle against her bow officially launching the ERIE, 29 Jan 1936.
Sponsor, Mrs Edmund A Knoll and her son, Lt. (jg) Denys Knoll (who was instrumental in the decision to name the vessel after the City of Erie, Pennsylvania), 29 Jan 1936.
Sponsor, Mrs. Edmund A. Knoll, and Rear Admiral Harris Laning at launching ceremony, 29 Jan 1936.
View toward port quarter; work continues on superstructure, 15 Apr 1936.
View toward port bow showing substantial progress on superstructure construction, 15 Apr 1936.
View toward starboard quarter showing superstructure construction, 15 Apr 1936.
View of stern section on the day of commissioning, 1 Jul 1936.
Starboard view of ship on the day of commissioning. Note that six-inch guns are not yet installed. An unidentified heavy cruiser dwarfs the ERIE. 1 Jul 1936.
Command staff from Third Naval District at the commissioning ceremony, 1 Jul 1936.
Rear Admiral Harris Laning, Commandant 3rd Naval District, delivers ship to Commander E. W. Hanson (barely visible behind Admiral Laning’s left shoulder), 1 Jul 1936.
ERIE’S first Commander, E.W. Hanson, read his orders at commissioning ceremony, 1 Jul 1936.