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USS Carpenter (DD/DDK/DDE-825) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Lieutenant Commander Donald M. Carpenter (1894–1940).
USS Carpenter (DD-825) following her FRAM I refit in February 1976
USS Carpenter in her original configuration, 1953
Carpenter with a Soviet submarine in the Sea of Japan, 6 January 1964
USS Carpenter after her FRAM I refit, 1965
The Consolidated Steel Corporation was an American steel and shipbuilding business. Formed on 18 December 1928, the company built ships during World War II in two main locations: Wilmington, California and Orange, Texas. It was created by the merger of Llewellyn Iron Works, Baker Iron Works and Union Iron Works, all of Los Angeles. The company entered the shipbuilding business in 1939. In 1948, now a pioneer producer of large-diameter pipelines, Consolidated Steel was renamed Consolidated Western Steel and acquired by U.S. Steel and operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Wilmington shipyard (right) Western Pipe and Steel yard (left), the Los Angeles Shipbuilding Company yard is just out of frame at the bottom left corner
One and one half hull under construction
Bird's eye view of the Port of Long Beach in 1937