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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 104525
USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5)
View looking aft from the bow, showing the ship's newly installed
"basket" foremast, circa summer or fall 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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