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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-294902

Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia


Sailors drilling in a metal lifeboat, while in training at Hampton Institute during World War II.
Note orientation markings on the boat's hull and ropes for controlling the rudder.
This photograph was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory on 13 January 1945.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 595 pixels

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5 December 1998