Photo #: NH 55341
USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18)
"Crossing the Line" ceremonies on board the ship, as
she crosses the Equator during the first leg of the "Great
White Fleet"'s cruise from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
early January 1908.
Atlantic Fleet commander Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans and other
officers watch the festivities from the ship's superstructure
as a "Polywog" (foreground) is prepared for a dunking.
Collection of Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright, Jr., 1928.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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