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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 92541

USS Walke
(Destroyer # 34)

Hoists aboard an 18-inch torpedo, circa 1914.
The ship's after (centerline) twin torpedo tubes are at left.
Note torpedo cart on deck, line running over pulley at the end of the torpedo davit, and the torpedo's contrarotating propellers.

Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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4 December 2004