Photo #: NH 65784
USS Monocacy (1866-1903) - in left center
Laid up in winter quarters at Tientsin, China, 1894-95.
The ship in the right center, housed over for the winter, is
the German gunboat Wolf (1878-1919).
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 63555
USS Monocacy (1866-1903)
Laid up in winter quarters in China, circa the 1890s.
Location is probably Tongku, during the winter of 1896-97.
Note Chinese with ice sleds in the foreground, ice boat at right,
and flag painted on the photo at Monocacy's mainmast gaff.
Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN(MC), 1931.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 45982
USS Monocacy (1866-1903)
Some of her officers and crewmen ice skating near the ship, while
she was laid up for the winter of 1897 at Tongku, China.
Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN(MC), 1931.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 45983
USS Monocacy (1866-1903)
Some of her officers and crewmen ice skating near the ship, while
she was laid up for the winter at Tongku, China, January 1897.
Note men standing by the 37mm revolving cannon at Monocacy's
bow and stern, a precaution against hostile action.
Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN(MC), 1931.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 45984
USS Monocacy (1866-1903)
Article from a contemporary magazine, authored by Ensign Charles
L. Poor, USN, describing how the ship was laid up in a mud dock
at Tongku, China, for the winter of 1896-97.
The photographs accompanying the article are all halftones.
Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN(MC), 1931.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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