This candid photograph, drawn from a personal photo album, captures US Navy sailors performing everyday shipboard chores, likely laundry or washing, on the open deck of a vessel during the interwar years. Images like this offer an informal counterpoint to official Navy photography, documenting the routines of daily life for sailors serving on the China Station and elsewhere in the Pacific during the 1930s, a period of American naval presence in Asia prior to World War II. Project: 218181