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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42707

USS Petrel (PG-2)


At Hong Kong, 15 April 1898, shortly before the beginning of the Spanish-American War. Note crewmen aloft watching the rowing launches racing past in the foreground, also shipping and Chinese junks in the distance.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 77,491 bytes; 740 x 625 pixels

 

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23 June 1998