DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 99843
USS Walke (Destroyer # 34)
Lowering a patch over the ship's starboard side to seal a hole
in her underwater hull, at Dry Tortugas, Florida, 17 March 1914.
Note the arrow painted on the ship's side to mark the location
of the hole and marking on the patch to show its top edge.
Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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