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Photo #: NH 69211 USS Vesuvius (1890-1922) Photographed circa the early 1890s. The muzzles of her three pneumatic "dynamite" guns are visible below her foremast boom. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 71,336 bytes; 740 x 625 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 52245 USS Katahdin (1896-1909) Halftone photograph, taken circa 1896-98. Courtesy of Howard I. Chapelle, Smithsonian Institution. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 82,800 bytes; 740 x 635 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 94258 USS Katahdin (1896-1909) Crewmen standing by her forward superstructure, 1898. The original photograph, taken by J.F. Jarvis, was printed on a stereographic card. Note sheet metal ladder on the ship's "turtle back" hull side. Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(Ret), 1983.. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 62,986 bytes; 590 x 660 pixels A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 94258-A |
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Photo #: NH 53760 USS Governor Russell (1898-99) Photographed in 1898. This Boston ferryboat was converted into a gunboat during the Spanish-American War, but was damaged by a severe storm while steaming south off the U.S. east coast in July 1898. Note 5"/40 gun mounted on her low forecastle deck. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 65,274 bytes; 740 x 560 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 53761 USS Governor Russell (1898-99) Taking green water over her bow during a storm off the U.S. Atlantic Coast, circa July-September 1898. Note canvas protective wrapping around the 5"/40 gun mounted on this converted ferryboat's low forecastle, and furled awning overhead. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 65,995 bytes; 740 x 625 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 57632 USS Arctic (1898) Officers and crew posed on her forecastle and upper deck, circa July-August 1898. During the Spanish-American War, this Philadelphia city iceboat served briefly in the Delaware River area as a U.S. Navy refrigerator ship. Note her 60-pounder breech-loading rifle, converted from a Civil War vintage Parrott gun. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 87,380 bytes; 740 x 600 pixels |
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19 April 1998