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Old Salts

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“The Old Navy” (“Spinning a Yarn” aboard USS Mohican, 1888) Description: The Old Navy (Spinning a Yarn aboard USS Mohican, 1888) Oil on canvas, 37 x 49, by Rufus F. Zogbaum (1849-1925). Painting signed and dated by the artist, 1923. It was inspired by the photograph seen in Photo # NH-2889. Painting in the U.S. Naval Academy Museum Collection. Gift of Rear Admiral George C. Reiter, 1924. Official U.S. Navy Photograph. Catalog #: KN-10866

Old Salt of the Sixth Fleet Letterpress reproduction of an oil painting by Frank E. Zuccarelli, depicting a Salty Sailor on board USS Strong (DD-758), while on duty with Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, July 1972. Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Catalog #: NH 97953-KN

The below, from Reddit, was taken at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 2007 with the crew of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Chafee (DDG-90) getting in on the act. Apparently then-Capt. Robert Tortora liked to take WWII pics every year.

Big up as it is a great pic

 

‘A Sailor’s Prayer’

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Donation of the Montana Historical Society. Collection of Philip Barbour, Jr., 1958. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Catalog #: NH 86250 click to big up 1000×787

“A Sailor’s Prayer: A hammock-bound Sailor’s reflections on Navy lower deck life, with second thoughts as re-enlistment time nears.”

Taken in a 5″/51 cal gun casemate on board USS Nevada (BB-36) by A.E. Wells, the ship’s photographer, during the early 1920s. Note ready-service shells on the casemate bulkhead, gun at left, shoes tied to hammock lashings and tattoo on the man’s left leg.