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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 49906

USS Saint Louis (C-20)

Christmas dinner in the ship's wardroom, 25 December 1918, showing officers wearing life jackets and the mess table fitted with "storm racks" to keep the plates in place.
The meal was eaten as the ship was steaming in a heavy Atlantic ocean gale.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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19 November 1998