| Don1962 | 15 May 2012 4:07 p.m. PST |
This website has some tremendous high-resolution scans of historic photos. Thought a few of you might be interested in this one of the crew from the USS Massachusetts: link |
| evilcartoonist | 15 May 2012 4:38 p.m. PST |
A lot of those sailors look like they're having a moustache contest. Great photos! |
| jpattern2 | 15 May 2012 5:48 p.m. PST |
Shorpy is a great archive to browse through. |
| Allen57 | 15 May 2012 7:31 p.m. PST |
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| DeanMoto | 15 May 2012 8:47 p.m. PST |
That's scary – I always remember reading the account of the USS Cyclops in a Bermuda Triangle book. Dean |
| OldGrenadier at work | 16 May 2012 4:28 a.m. PST |
There's a pic of two very early US destroyers visiting New Orleans on the site. Those early destroyers were tiny! |
 chicklewis  | 16 May 2012 4:47 a.m. PST |
Very interesting. Not a single one of 'em looks fat. Photo makes me glad I was not a sailor 100 years ago. |
| Rubber Suit Theatre | 16 May 2012 11:11 a.m. PST |
They're old before their time. Partly the long hours of sun exposure, partly the grog ration, and partly the fact that they smoke like chimneys. You see the same thing at the lower end of the income ladder here in the states. I find it very interesting that the bulkheads and overhead look pretty similar to a modern vessel. |
| ScottS | 16 May 2012 11:31 a.m. PST |
partly the grog ration The US Navy ended the rum/grog ration during the Civil War. |
| Rubber Suit Theatre | 17 May 2012 8:53 a.m. PST |
You're right – I was thinking of the officers' liquor that was banned in 1914. |
| ScottS | 17 May 2012 11:14 a.m. PST |
It's all good. That said, I seriously doubt if any of those men were teetotalers when they were on liberty… ;) |
| Lion in the Stars | 19 May 2012 8:03 a.m. PST |
I'd bet a week's pay that there were no teetotalers at all! |
dips his toe into the Russo-Japanese War.
