Navy Won't Give Up This 'Ship'-Eighteen naval reservists manned this Naval Reserve Training center on an island in the flooded Mississippi at St. Paul, sandbagging it against the record flood waters. Ordinarily high and dry on an island, the naval installation looks like a houseboat moving upstream. A sandbagging sailor is visible at the far right.

Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Navy Won't Give Up This 'Ship'-Eighteen naval reservists manned this Naval Reserve Training center on an island in the flooded Mississippi at St. Paul, sandbagging it against the record flood waters. Ordinarily high and dry on an island, the naval installation looks like a houseboat moving upstream. A sandbagging sailor is visible at the far right.

Associated Press · [ca. April 1952]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Floods: 1952: Wire Photos

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