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USS S-35, USS S-33, USS S-32, USS S-34 at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, Mar 1929; note USS Pittsburgh in background	Haguro in the final stages of fitting out, off Mutusbishi's Nagasaki shipyard, Japan, 6 Apr 1929

USS Oklahoma off the Philadelphia Navy Yard after modernization, Pennsylvania, United States, 21 Aug 1929	Screws and stern of the cruiser Northampton on the ways ten days before her launching, Bethlehem Steel Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, 26 Aug 1929. Note the man standing on the scaffold next to the propeller shaft.

Devonshire as seen in an issue of The Naval and Military Record, photo taken circa 1929	Devonshire as seen in the 21 Aug 1929 issue of The Naval and Military Record, photo taken circa 1929 at Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, after turret explosion

Devonshire as seen in the 23 Nov 1933 issue of The Naval and Military Record, photo taken circa 1929	HMS Repulse firing her guns, Sep 1929

The battleships Nevada (background) and Arizona (foreground) being overhauled at the Norfolk Navy Yard, late 1929. Note Arizona’s new tripod masts that became so iconic in photos from the Pearl Harbor Attack.	Japanese passenger liner Asama Maru, Shanghai, China, circa late 1929

USS S-39, possibly at Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, circa 1930	A sailor in the engine room of USS S-44, date unknown

A sailor shaving aboard USS S-44, date unknown	Aoba after outfitted with catapult, circa 1930-1937

Arizona at sea during the 1930s	Arizona pitching in heavy seas during the 1930s

Arizona underway during the 1930s	Batteship Haruna, circa 1930

Battleship Colorado at sea off Hawaii, United States in the late 1920s or early 1930s; note two OL-6 aircraft on turret catapult and one UO or FU aircraft on stern catapult	California underway during the 1930s