Photo #: NH 105942
Nictheroy (Brazilian auxiliary cruiser, 1893-1898, formerly S.S. El Cid, later USS Buffalo)
View on board, probably taken while fitting out for Brazilian Navy service in November 1893 at the Morgan Iron Works, New York City.
Her single 15-inch dynamite gun on the forecastle (left center) was offset 3 feet to starboard of the centerline and was trainable right ahead and on both bows. The gun on the right may be one of the two 33-pounder (4-inch) Hotchkiss quick-fire guns that were listed as having been "mounted forward on the bluff of the bow on each side".
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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