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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 77460

USS Bennington
(Gunboat # 4)

In dry dock at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa 1894-1898.
This image is printed on a postal card containing a hand-written message referring to Bennington's 19 July 1905 boiler explosion.

Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (MSC), 1973.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 1 February 2005