Fire disaster at Algers which destroyed two ships and wrecked several buildings. USS Savannah in foreground. July 16, 1943
(rudeerude)

Fire disaster at Algers

USS Chaumont (AP-5) arriving off the Bund at Shanghai, China, with the 6th Regiment, U. S. Marine Corps, on 19 September 1937. The Marines had been sent to reinforce the 4th Marine Regiment in guarding the U. S. sector of the International Settlement during the Sino-Japanese war. The tug is either St. Sampson or St. Dominic.
19 September 1937(1937-09-19)


I hope it is this time correct. It does look more to a transport ship to me than "my previous Chaumont".
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Evillittlekenny

USS Chaumont in Shanghai

Grumman F3F-1 in flight.  The Grumman F3F series was the last series of biplane fighters supplied to the United States Navy.  The last models were delivered in 1938, and the type had been replaced in the combat role by 1941.  Some continued to be used as trainers and in communications duties in subsequent years.  Apart from its brief use as a stopgap Navy fighter at the very beginning of America's war, the real importance of this aircraft is as the direct forebear of Grumman's more familiar monoplane fighters, the Wildcat and the Hellcat.  The relationship is visible, not least in the (still) somewhat barrel-like profile of these later aircraft.  Best regards, JR.