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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 99824

USS Walke
(Destroyer # 34)

Chief Petty Officer performs pre-launching maintenance on an 18-inch torpedo, which is partially withdrawn from the starboard twin torpedo tubes, 31 March 1914.
Note torpedo davit at right and steam issuing from smokestack steam pipes in the background.

Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 7 December 2004