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.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 90KB; 430 x 765 pixels |
 |