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Sailors leap off the side of the battleship USS Rhode Island after coaling ship, circa 1913.

This colorized photograph shows sailors doing their laundry by hand on the deck of a Navy warship.

The private shower facility in Officers' Country on board the former cruiser USS Olympia, taken in 2009.

A washroom in Officers' Country on board the former cruiser USS Olympia, taken in 2010

This head on board the former protected cruiser USS Olympia shows the modern, and somewhat luxurious, facilities available to officers of the ship.

The restored enlisted head on board the former protected cruiser USS Olympia, shot in 2010.

Sick bay on board USS Olympia, taken in October 1899.

Troops on board the transport USS Mercury stand on deck, awaiting a blast of cleansing water from a fire hose.

Sailors of the battleship USS Rhode Island mug for a photo, covered in coal dust.

A sailor on board USS Olympia shaves. Cyanotype taken around 1898.

Cyanotype print of sailors doing their laundry in buckets on board USS Olympia, 1898.