Photo #: NH 102774-KN (color)
USS Bennington Monument, Fort Rosecrans, San Diego,
California
Color-tinted postal card, published by H.L. Christiance, San
Diego.
This monument was erected in memory of the Navy personnel who
lost their lives in the boiler explosion on board USS Bennington
(Gunboat # 4) at San Diego on 21 July 1905.
North Island is in the right background.
One copy of this card was mailed at Long Beach, California, on
28 October 1922 with the following message: "Say Betsy!
Pointing to Heaven. Looks like a long slender finger, doesn't
it?."
Courtesy of H.E. ("Ed") Coffer.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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