Photo #: NH 100930-A-KN (color)
USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4)
Fine-screen halftone reproduction of a photographic montage,
published on a postal card by the Special View Company, 326 S.
Hill St., Los Angeles, California. It shows the ship and some
of her crew after her 21 July 1905 boiler explosion.
Courtesy of H.E. ("Ed") Coffer, 1986.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 100930
USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4)
Halftone reproduction of a photographic montage, published on
a postal card by the Special View Company, showing the ship and
some of her crew after her 21 July 1905 boiler explosion.
Note the message written around the card's edges: "Dear
Daisy: This is not very pretty but may be of interest in years
to come. Sorry I could not see the Vaudeville. Hope it will be
a 'howling' success. Yours - K.".
Courtesy of H.E. ("Ed") Coffer, 1986.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 102779-KN (color)
USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4)
Fine-screen halftone reproduction of a photographic montage,
published on a postal card by the Special View Company, 326 S.
Hill St., Los Angeles, California. It shows the ship after her
21 July 1905 boiler explosion, the burial of victims of the disaster,
and one of her surviving crew members. This Sailor is almost
certainly John Henry ("Dick") Turpin, who had also
survived the explosion of USS Maine in February 1898.
Donation of H.E. ("Ed") Coffer.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 85697
USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4)
Funeral procession at San Diego, California, for victims of the
ship's 21 July 1905 boiler explosion.
Donation of William L. Graham, 1977.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 85698
USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4)
Burial ceremonies, at San Diego, California, for victims of the
ship's 21 July 1905 boiler explosion.
Donation of William L. Graham, 1977.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 104890-KN (color)
USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4)
Front page of a four-page program for a variety show held on
2 August 1905 at the Grand Theatre, San Diego, California, to
raise funds for a monument to the members of the ship's crew
who lost their lives in her 21 July 1905 boiler explosion.
This page features halftoned reproductions of two photographs,
one showing Bennington soon after the disaster and the
other showing a scene on her deck.
Courtesy of Harrell E. ("Ed") Coffer, 2007.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 104891-KN (color)
USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4)
Second page of a four-page program for a variety show held on
2 August 1905 at the Grand Theatre, San Diego, California, to
raise funds for a monument to the members of the ship's crew
who lost their lives in her 21 July 1905 boiler explosion.
Courtesy of Harrell E. ("Ed") Coffer, 2007.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 104892-KN (color)
USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4)
Third page of a four-page program for a variety show held on
2 August 1905 at the Grand Theatre, San Diego, California, to
raise funds for a monument to the members of the ship's crew
who lost their lives in her 21 July 1905 boiler explosion.
Courtesy of Harrell E. ("Ed") Coffer, 2007.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 104893-KN (color)
USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4)
Back page of a four-page program for a variety show held on 2
August 1905 at the Grand Theatre, San Diego, California, to raise
funds for a monument to the members of the ship's crew who lost
their lives in her 21 July 1905 boiler explosion.
This page features a song by Raymond Teal entitled "The
Boys of the Bennington".
Courtesy of Harrell E. ("Ed") Coffer, 2007.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 102740
U.S. Navy Medal of Honor
Reverse of a Medal of Honor awarded to Seaman Edward William
Boers, USN, for "extraordinary heroism" following the
explosion of a boiler on board USS Bennington (Gunboat
# 4) on 21 July 1905.
Seaman Boers was born 10 March 1884 at Cincinnati, Ohio.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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