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Photo #: NH 105941

Nictheroy
(Brazilian auxiliary cruiser, 1893-1898, formerly S.S. El Cid, later USS Buffalo)

Probably shown fitting out for Brazilian Navy service in November 1893 at the Morgan Iron Works, New York City. Several barges are alongside.
Nictheroy's single 15-inch dynamite gun is on the forecastle. A small quick-fire gun, probably one of her eight 6-pounder Hotchkiss weapons, is barely visible behind a shield on the weather deck aft. Six of the other 6-pounders were carried behind ports in the hull, along with four tubes for Howell torpedoes. Her former name, El Cid, has been painted out on the bow but the ship still wears the rest of her mercantile paint scheme.

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Image posted 11 October 2008
Text edited and coding updated 20 January 2009