Photo #: NH 104524
USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5)
Erecting the ship's new "basket" foremast, while she
was undergoing overhaul at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California,
circa mid-1910.
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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