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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 54202

USS Enterprise
(1877-1909)

Ship's XI-inch Dahlgren pivot gun "in action", probably while she was at the New York Navy Yard, circa spring 1890.
Photographed by E.H. Hart, New York City.
View looks aft from the forecastle, with the navigating bridge in the background.
Note the gun's iron carriage, Sailor at left holding a shell (weighing about 127 pounds) in preparation for loading, and men wearing double row loop cartridge belts for "trap-door Springfield" rifles.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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3 December 2004