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

Sailors from the cruiser USS Philadelphia practice assaulting over a wall in the 1890's, on Honolulu.

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

Championship baseball team of the armored cruiser USS Tennessee poses in custom uniforms for a photo with banners, sometime between 1908-1910.

Sailors on board USS Olympia dance with each other while the ship's band plays for "tiffin" (lunch) around 1889-99.

Sailors on board the gunboat USS Elcano share a meal on the Whang-Foo River in China, 1916.

Sailors are (around table, starting at left): Clancy Hodges, Milo Smith, Branden, Dunham, Arthur Furnas, La Bounty.

Berth deck cooks on board USS Ossipee pose with food and cooking implements in 1887

Sailors on board the battleship USS Maryland engage in a pie-eating contest.

Sailors on board USS Olympia sit down for a meal, 1898.

This pre-WWI cartoon postcard depicts a certain problem with a heavy diet of beans in the Navy.

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

This WWI era postcard humorously alludes to the difficult task of replenishing a warship's coal supply

Sailors of the engineer's force on board the cruiser USS Baltimore pose with their Christmas feast in 1904, off China.

Sailors on board USS Isla de Luzon shovel coal.

Bodies of sailors killed in the turret explosion of the battleship USS Missouri in 1904 are brought ashore.