DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 56383-A
USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4)
Halftone reproduction of a photograph, showing the ship's starboard
side, amidships, as she was beached at San Diego, California,
soon after her 21 July 1905 boiler explosion. A disabled six-inch
gun is in the center of the image.
Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps),
November 1931.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 98KB; 740 x 585 pixels
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.