Survivors of USS <i>Lexington</i> (CV-2) are pulled aboard a cruiser - probably USS <i>Minneapolis</i> (CA-36) - after the carrier was abandoned on the afternoon of 8 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Note the man in the lower part of the photo who is using the cruiser's armor belt as a hand hold.
USN
1942-05-08
Official U.S. Navy photograph <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g00001/g07392.jpg">80-G-7392</a>, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/coralsea/cs-5m.htm">[1]</a>.