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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.

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Image posted 9 January 2008