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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 86250

"A Sailor's Prayer"


A hammock-bound Sailor's reflections on Navy lower deck life, with second thoughts as re-enlistment time nears.
Taken in a 5"/51 gun casemate on board USS Nevada (BB-36) by A.E. Wells, the ship's photographer, during the early 1920s.
Note ready-service shells on the casemate bulkhead, gun at left, shoes tied to hammock lashings and tattoo on the man's left leg.

Donation of the Montana Historical Society. Collection of Philip Barbour, Jr., 1958.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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17 October 2000