For the men who served on board the U.S. Navy's battleships in the 1910s, life at sea often meant backbreaking work shoveling coal or manning the guns, little chance for liberty, and a night's sleep in a hammock instead of a bunk.

 

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Mr. Stillwell is a contributing editor to Naval History

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