Photo #: NH 104522
USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5)
Removing the ship's military foremast, while she was undergoing
overhaul at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa mid-1910.
This mast was being replaced with a "basket" foremast.
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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