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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 92529

USS Walke
(Destroyer # 34)

Crewmen patching an underwater hole in the hull, aft on the starboard side, at Dry Tortugas, Florida, 17 March 1914.
They are working from a platform resting on two boats.
Note lapstrake construction of the boats, ship's name on her stern, and her starboard propeller guard.

Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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4 December 2004