June 26, 1920, was a Saturday, and on that Saturday the Saturday Evening Post featured a female fly fisherman on its cover.
Women doing other activities associated with water and the outdoors would be busy on that day.
The ship the Colin H. Livingstone was launched June 26, 1920, at Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation, Alexandria, Virginia, where it was christened by daughter Clarice M. Livingstone.
The Canadian born Colin H. Livingstone was living at the time and was a railroad executive. He was also the first president of the Boy Scouts of America, having occupied that position since 1910. The Boy Scouts were very much a major institution at the time, as we've discussed here before.
The ship was sunk by a German submarine on August 28, 1940.
Further north, the torpedo destroyer USS Hopkins was launched.
Sarah Babbitt of Providence, Rhode Island, descendant of Esek Hopkins, commodore of the Continental Navy during the Revolution, served at the launching of the torpedo destroyer at New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, New Jersey. The ship served all the way through World War Two during which it sustained a single combat casualty when it was hit by a kamikaze in 1945. The hit was a glancing blow. The USS Hopkins was scrapped in 1946.
Somewhat related, on this day in 1920, Charles W. Lindberg, who would serve in the Marine Corps in World War Two, and who was one of the Marines photographed raising the flag on Iwo Jima, was born. He died in 2007.
