<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">USS D-3 Photographed from the Port bow. Note dents in the rotating bow cap for the torpedo tubes. This was a thick casting so those were hard hits. Date is unknown but circa 1910.
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tubes. This was a thick solid casting of several inches thick so those were hard hits.
Date is unknown but circa 1910 is probably close.
<small>Photo from the Private Collection of Ric Hedman</small>
<small>Photo from the Private Collection of Ric Hedman</small>
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[[File:D3crew2a colorized.jpg ||left|500px|<center>USS D-3 port bow with crew on deck. One black crewman. </center>]]
Really rare shot of a black crewman on the D-3. Blacks had not been relegated to
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cooking and serving positions yet by Presidents Wilson's segregation of the Navy.
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">Really rare shot of a black crewman on the D-3. Blacks had not been relegated to cooking and serving positions yet by Presidents Wilson's segregation of the Navy. There is one crewman sitting on the deck talking to the man in the lower right of photo. Eleven of the D-3's crew are in the full picture above.
There is one crewman sitting on the deck talking to the man in the lower right of photo.
Eleven of the D-3's crew are in the full picture above. <br>
<small>Photo from the Private Collection of Ric Hedman</small>
<small>Photo from the Private Collection of Ric Hedman</small>
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Revision as of 11:48, 25 August 2023
USS D-3 Photographed from the Port bow. Note dents in the rotating bow cap for the torpedo tubes. This was a thick casting so those were hard hits. Date is unknown but circa 1910.
Photo from the Private Collection of Ric Hedman
Really rare shot of a black crewman on the D-3. Blacks had not been relegated to cooking and serving positions yet by Presidents Wilson's segregation of the Navy. There is one crewman sitting on the deck talking to the man in the lower right of photo. Eleven of the D-3's crew are in the full picture above.
