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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 99844
USS Walke (Destroyer # 34)
Lowering a patch over the ship's starboard side to seal a hole
in her underwater hull, 19 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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Image posted 7 December 2004