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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 2233-KN (Color)

"A Critical Situation"

Screened color print of an oil painting by Burnell Poole. It depicts USS Stockton (Destroyer # 73) narrowly averting a collision with a large troopship she was escorting in thick weather during 1918.

Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 101KB; 740 x 525 pixels

NOTE:
At the time of this writing (October 2004) the original painting was in poor condition and awaiting restoration.

 

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4 October 2004