File:Aerial view of the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California (USA), circa in 1918 (NH 42535).jpg

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English: Aerial view of the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California (USA), photographed during World War I, with four-piper destroyers under construction at the Risdon Iron Works in the lower right. Four submarines and one destroyer hull in dry-dock are at the piers in the center, along with some large merchant ships. Risdon, part of Union, is to the lower right of the ink line.
  • 1: Cafeteria,
  • 2: Store room,
  • 3: Iron Foundry,
  • 4: Brass Foundry,
  • 5: Machine shop,
  • 6: Pattern shop,
  • 7: Erecting machine shop,
  • 8: Administration building,
  • 9: Power house,
  • 10: office building, Government offices,
  • 11: Blacksmith shop,
  • 12: Bioler shop,
  • 13: Joiner shop,
  • 14: Joiner shop, annex with oil storage tanks underneath,
  • 15: Warehouse and office building,
  • 16: Pipe and copper shop,
  • 17: Steel storage,
  • 18: Plate shop,
  • 19: Gate house,
  • 20: Building slips 4&5,
  • 21: Building slips 1.2 & 3,
  • 22: Wharf #2,
  • 23: Wharf #3,
  • 24: Floating dock, capacity 2000 tons,
  • 25: Floating dock, capacity 6500 tons,
  • 26: Wharf #4,
  • 27: Wharf #5,
  • S: Storage space
  • 2: Risdon Plant shown south and east of red lines:
  • 1: Copper storage,
  • 2: Oil tank,
  • 3: Office building,
  • 4: Office building,
  • 5: Yarrow boiler shop,
  • 6: Warehouse,
  • 7: Power house,
  • 8: Blacksmith shop,
  • 9: Storehouse,
  • 10: Sheet metal shop,
  • 11: Sheet metal shop,
  • 12: Marine machine shop,
  • 13: Wharves,
  • 14: Wharves,
  • 15: Wharves.
Date circa 1918
date QS:P571,+1918-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q3250126
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NH 42535
Source U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 42535

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