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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