Photo #: NH 105292
USS Lebanon (1898-1922, later AG-2)
Shown "talking at sea" with signal flags off Cuba during
the Spanish American war.
The contemporary handwritten caption explains that "As the
vessels seldom come within speaking distance at sea, the flags
tell the news, and pass the orders over the miles of intervening
water." Lebanon served primarily as a collier during
the 1898 war.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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