Photo #: NH 104526
USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5)
View looking forward from the ship's mainmast top, showing her
after smokestack and the newly installed "basket" foremast,
circa 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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