Title	Navy officers, Keyport, ca. 1943
Date	ca. 1943
Caption	John Henry "Dick" Turpin, born in 1876, enlisted in the Navy in 1896. He was a crew member on the USS Maine when it was destroyed in 1898 at the start of the Spanish-American War. He also survived a boiler explosion on the USS Bennington in 1905. Turpin was one of the Navy's first African American Chief Petty Officers, serving in that post on the USS Marblehead from 1917 to 1919. He retired as a Chief Gunner's Mate in 1925. When not serving on active duty, he was employed at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton as a Master Rigger. He also qualified, in his civilian capacity, as a Master Diver. From 1938 through the end of World War II, he made inspirational visits to Naval Training Centers and defense plants. Turpin died in 1962 . This photo was probably taken at the Naval Torpedo Station (later called the Naval Undersea Warfare Center) in Keyport, Washington. Milton Hutchins boarded with Ernest and Irene Alexander in Seattle while he was stationed in Bremerton. Maurice Howard and his wife Dessie maintained their home in Seattle.
Notes	Handwritten on verso: Milton Hutchins, Dick Turpin, Maurice Howard, Robert Myers.
Subjects	Military officers--Washington (State)--Bremerton Military uniforms--Washington (State)--Bremerton United States. Navy African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle World War, 1939-1945
Personal Names	Hutchins, Milton Turpin, Dick Howard, Maurice Myers, Robert
Location	United States--Washington (State)--Bremerton
Digital Collection	Black Heritage Society Collection
Image Number	1997.23.2.02
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Repository	The Black Heritage Society of Washington State, Inc.
Physical Description	1 photographic print: b&w; 7 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.; stained
Digital Reproduction Information	Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3.