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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 104518
USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5)
Taking green water over the bow as she steams through a western
Pacific typhoon, circa December 1909.
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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