Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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USS Saratoga transiting the Panama Canal, 1928-1932	Valiant following her 1929-1930 refit, circa 1930-1933

View looking aft on Königsberg from the port side searchlight platform while the ship was underway, circa 1930	Fairey III-F aircraft landing on board Furious, circa early 1930s

Chicago being prepared for launching, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 8 Apr 1930	Commissioning ceremonies aboard the cruiser Northampton at the Bethlehem Steel Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, 17 May 1930. Note the senior officers in their cocked hats.

USS S-39 at Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, 13 Jun 1930	Northampton-class cruiser USS Chester in Naples harbor, Italy during her shakedown cruise, 1930.

Photo of possibly the first naval review of Aoba, Yokohama 30 Oct 1930	General Douglas MacArthur (left) sharing a laugh with New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt (right) and Secretary of War George Dorn (center) shortly after MacArthur was appointed Army Chief of Staff, Nov 1930.

Heavy cruiser USS Chester at Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States, Nov 1930.	USS Saratoga in Drydock No. 2 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, 17 Nov 1930

20 R-class submarines of US Navy Submarine Divisions 9 and 14 at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 12 Dec 1930. Note the repair piers and floating crane YD-25 in the distance.	Anti-aircraft gunnery drill aboard Königsberg, circa 1931

Crewmen of Königsberg on her foredeck, circa 1931	Emden in the Yantze River en route to Nanjing, China, 1931

Haruna in 1931, after her first modernization	HMS Eagle underway, 1931, as seen in Jul 1978 issue of US Navy Naval Aviation News

HMS Hermes off Yantai (Chefoo), China, circa 1931	Houston's crew, 1931-1933; Captain Robert A. Dawes in center