This page features photographs and artworks of Sailors telling "tall tales" for the amusement of their messmates.
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Photo #: NH 47029-A (without verses) "Spinning a Yarn" Seven "Old Salts" engaged in telling tall tales aboard USS Enterprise (1877-1909), circa spring 1890. Photographed by E.H. Hart, New York. Suitable verses from "The Tale of the Gyascutus" are printed below the original photographic image. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 156KB; 740 x 590 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 47029 "Spinning a Yarn" Seven "Old Salts" engaged in telling tall tales aboard USS Enterprise (1877-1909), circa Spring 1890. Photographed by E.H. Hart, New York. Suitable verses from "The Tale of the Gyascutus" are printed below the original photographic image. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 141KB; 740 x 620 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 58319 "Old Salts Spinning a Yarn" Sailors and a Marine telling stories around a spittoon on board a U.S. Navy ship, circa the 1880s. Courtesy of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Admiral Harold R. Stark. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 111KB; 740 x 550 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 58320 "Old (?) Salts Spinning a Yarn" Sailors and a Marine on board USS Saratoga (CV-3), during the 1930s, arranged in a group resembling that of an 1880s era "Old Salts" photograph. See Photo # NH 58319 for the view that inspired this one. Note use of a cake pan in place of the spittoon of the 1880s photo. Courtesy of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Admiral Harold R. Stark. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 590 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 85339 Greenwich Pensioners "Spinning Yarns" at the old Naval Home, Greenwich, England, circa 1830. Engraving by George Cruikshank, from "Tough Yarns", 1835, frontispiece. Courtesy of the Navy Department Library, Washington, D.C. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 175KB; 560 x 765 pixels |
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Page made 9 April 2000
Captions updated 16 December 2004