Photo #: NH 85666
USS Tioga (1862-1867)
View looking forward from atop her port paddle box, showing the
gun crews at their posts. Taken at Bangor, Maine, during or shortly
after the Civil War.
Note: large Parrott rifled gun on a slide-pivot mount forward;
32-Pounder smoothbore gun nearer the camera; African-American
sailor in the 32-Pounder gun's crew; fire buckets, bearing the
ship's name, hung around the capstan; shot rack on the hatch
in lower right; sail rigged to the foremast by hoops; windsail
ventilator rigged abaft the mast; boat davits and rigging for
masts and the smokestack.
Courtesy of Lieutenant Colonel W.J. O'Brien.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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