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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 104513-A

USS West Virginia
(Armored Cruiser # 5)

Members of King Neptune's Court minister to a Pollywog, during an Equator crossing ceremony in October 1919, while the ship was en route to the western Pacific.
The Pollywog is seated on a catapult, which will soon hurl him into the dunking tank to receive the attentions of waiting Shellbacks.

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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Image posted 13 February 2007