Photo #: NH 104513
USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5)
King Neptune and his Royal Court, during an Equator crossing
ceremony in October 1909, while the ship was en route to the
western Pacific.
Note the catapult in the foreground, employed for hurling Polywogs
into the hands of the ship's 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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