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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 105911

USS Delaware
(Battleship # 28)

Coaling from a Navy collier before World War I.
The collier is either Orion or Jason, or possibly Neptune (Fuel Ships Nos. 11, 12, and 8 respectively). Note that each coaling boom extended over the battleship is paired with a boom extended over the opposite side.

Donation of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Retired), 2008.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 29 June 2008