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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 103117

USS Petrel
(Gunboat # 2)

Fine-screen halftone reproduction of a pre-Spanish-American War photograph of the ship, with vignette portraits of her officers at the time of the 1 May 1898 Battle of Manila Bay.
The officers' names and ranks are listed below the image.

Copied from the book "The Battle of Manila Bay ... An Epic Poem by Pay Director William W. Galt, U.S.N.", published in 1900.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 113KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 

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Image posted 7 September 2005