A U.S. Navy fireboat washes down the battleship USS <i>New York</i> (BB-34) with seawater at Bikini Atoll, to reduce radioactive contamination after the base surge passed over it during the "Baker" nucelar test of Operation Crossroads on 25 July 1946.
U.S. Navy
circa July 1946 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1946-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902</div>
U.S. Navy photo <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/013418.jpg">[1]</a> in: Joint Task Force One, <i>Operation Crossroads: the Official Pictorial Record</i>, 1946, p 211; available at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/34a.htm">Navsource.org</a>