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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- SPANISH NAVY SHIPS --

Buenos Aires (Transport, 1898)

Buenos Aires, a transport requisitioned for service during the Spanish-American War, was built as a merchant ship in 1887. In June & July 1898, she was part Admiral Camara's abortive Philippines relief expedition. Following the war, Buenos Aires returned to commercial service and was scrapped in 1942.

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Photo #: NH 94370

Buenos Aires

(Spanish Transport, 1887-1942

At Port Said, Egypt, 26 June - 11 July 1898, while serving with Rear Admiral Manuel de la Camara's Philippines relief expedition.
She was a merchant ship, requisitioned for naval service during the Spanish-American War.
The three smokestacks in the middle distance belong to the cruiser Carlos V.

Copied from an Office of Naval Intelligence photo album.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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21 October 1998