On May 19, 1941, the Battleship NORTH CAROLINA left the New York Navy Yard for the first time and headed down the East River. The ship just left Pier C, Brooklyn Navy Yard. Stephen Hustvedt, the ship's captain's son, age 15, took this photograph of the Battleship from the roof of the Towers Hotel in Brooklyn looking toward the tip of Manhattan. The Battleship headed to Delaware Bay and back for its first trial run in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship is painted in measure 2 camouflage.
