PHOTO OF THE DAY February 7, 2005  

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Where Hampton Roads, Virginia
When 1959
Photographer Joseph Baylor Roberts

"Glorious age of sail comes to life for cadets aboard the Belgian school ship 'Mercator,' driving past the Virginia capes on a visit to America in 1959."

—From the National Geographic Book Men, Ships, and the Sea, 1973


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