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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96844 USS Massey (DD-778) Anchored at Naples, Italy, 5 July 1948. She is using a fire hose, aft, to keep over-enthusiastic "bum boat" peddlers away from the ship. This was done in keeping with current directives from both Navy and Italian authorities prohibiting "bum boat" transactions. Photographed from USS Kearsarge (CV-33). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 121KB; 740 x 620 pixels

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18 May 1999