Photo #: NH 99842
USS Walke (Destroyer # 34)
Making repairs on an underwater hole in Walke's after
starboard hull side, at Dry Tortugas, Florida, 17 March 1914.
Note working platform supported by two boats, arrow painted on
the ship's side to mark the location of the hole, twin 18-inch
torpedo tubes at right, with what appears to be a diver's air
pump just aft of them, ship's after steering station in left
center, and lap strake construction of the boat in foreground.
Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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