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USS New York Burial at Sea

Submitted by William Christen on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 6:45am.
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The recent Shorpy photographs taken on the USS New York. (armored cruiser CA-2) have been of a lighter nature. The following anonymous snapshots are in my collection. They were taken on the USS New York (see the "NY" on the lifeboat in image 4). The images were likely taken between 1898 and 1905. They are numbered on the images as No. 86 through No. 94 -- perhaps indicating a larger series of photographs taken on one of the ships many cruises from 1893 through 1911. These images show the most solemn of Naval ceremonies -- a burial at sea. In this image the honor guard is securing a US Flag around the canvas wrapped corpse. View full size

The recent Shorpy photographs taken on the USS New York. (armored cruiser CA-2) have been of a lighter nature. The following anonymous snapshots are in my collection. They were taken on the USS New York (see the "NY" on the lifeboat in image 4). The images were likely taken between 1898 and 1905. They are numbered on the images as No. 86 through No. 94 -- perhaps indicating a larger series of photographs taken on one of the ships many cruises from 1893 through 1911.

These images show the most solemn of Naval ceremonies -- a burial at sea. In this image the honor guard is securing a US Flag around the canvas wrapped corpse. View full size

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Jeez, What A Terrible Way To Enter Eternity

Submitted by Nicholas West on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 8:33am.

Personally I've always considered burial at sea the most cruel, depressing and needless of all death customs.

The person is thrown into the cold, dark roiling sea, an environment totally alien and deadly to human beings, and left to spend eternity completely alone there. You might as well shoot a loved one out into space. Nothing to mark his resting place either and no way to get there or find it if you wanted to.

Not even to take his place in a cemetery among the dead of his fellow man, in the warm and familiar bed of the sunlit earth and grass and rain, or to have ones ashes scattered over a peaceful and bucolic place, perhaps at ones beloved birthplace or near other loved ones.

What has any man done to deserve being dumped into the cruel and lonely ocean, like the ultimate outcast?

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