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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42949

USS Ossipee (1862-1891)


Crew "At Quarters", circa 1887-88.
Note black sailor in right center; gun crews by their weapons at right, Marines with "Trap-door Springfield" rifles, drummers, dog on deck and hammocks stowed in hammock rails over the bulwarks.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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11 November 1998