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Photo # NH 47029-A: 'Spinning a Yarn' -- sailors telling tall tales on board USS Enterprise, circa spring 1890

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"Spinning a Yarn"

This page features photographs and artworks of Sailors telling "tall tales" for the amusement of their messmates.

For other views with similar themes, see:

  • "The Old Navy"; and
  • "Old Salts ...".


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 47029-A (without verses)

    "Spinning a Yarn"

    Seven "Old Salts" engaged in telling tall tales aboard USS Enterprise (1877-1909), circa spring 1890.
    Photographed by E.H. Hart, New York.
    Suitable verses from "The Tale of the Gyascutus" are printed below the original photographic image.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 156KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 47029

    "Spinning a Yarn"


    Seven "Old Salts" engaged in telling tall tales aboard USS Enterprise (1877-1909), circa Spring 1890.
    Photographed by E.H. Hart, New York.
    Suitable verses from "The Tale of the Gyascutus" are printed below the original photographic image.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 141KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58319

    "Old Salts Spinning a Yarn"


    Sailors and a Marine telling stories around a spittoon on board a U.S. Navy ship, circa the 1880s.

    Courtesy of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Admiral Harold R. Stark.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 111KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58320

    "Old (?) Salts Spinning a Yarn"


    Sailors and a Marine on board USS Saratoga (CV-3), during the 1930s, arranged in a group resembling that of an 1880s era "Old Salts" photograph.
    See Photo # NH 58319 for the view that inspired this one.
    Note use of a cake pan in place of the spittoon of the 1880s photo.

    Courtesy of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Admiral Harold R. Stark.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 85339

    Greenwich Pensioners


    "Spinning Yarns" at the old Naval Home, Greenwich, England, circa 1830.
    Engraving by George Cruikshank, from "Tough Yarns", 1835, frontispiece.

    Courtesy of the Navy Department Library, Washington, D.C.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 175KB; 560 x 765 pixels

     

    For other views with similar themes, see:

  • "The Old Navy"; and
  • "Old Salts ...".


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


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    Page made 9 April 2000
    Captions updated 16 December 2004