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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 104527

USS West Virginia
(Armored Cruiser # 5)

View looking aft from the top of the ship's newly installed "basket" foremast, showing three of her four smokestacks, military mainmast, boat stowage and female visitors on the boat deck, 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.

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Image posted 7 January 2007