Photo #: NH 104506
USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5)
Ship's baseball team, probably photographed at Honolulu, Hawaii
Territory, circa September-October 1909.
West Virginia, flagship of the Pacific Fleet, was then
leading seven other armored cruisers on a voyage to the western
Pacific.
Photo from the 1909-1924 album of Vice Admiral Olaf M. Hustvedt,
USN (Retired), who was a Midshipman in USS West Virginia
at the time this image was made. Courtesy of Rick Hauck, 2006.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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