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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 84574

USS Olympia (C-6)


Dressed with flags and firing a salute at Hong Kong, 22 February 1898, in celebration of George Washington's birthday. This was only a week after the USS Maine blew up in Havana Harbor, and peacetime routine still prevailed.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Dutreaux Collection

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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17 July 1998