DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 100929
USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4)
Halftone reproduction of a photograph, published as a postal
card by Wood's Print, Los Angeles, California, showing the ship
partially sunk in San Diego harbor following her 21 July 1905
boiler explosion.
Note the sailboats in the foreground, among them one named Nellie.
Courtesy of H.E. ("Ed") Coffer, 1986.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 83KB; 465 x 765 pixels
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