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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 106129
"Great White Fleet" World Cruise, 1907-1909
View on the River Nile, Egypt, during a sightseeing tour for
U.S. Navy Sailors at the time of the Fleet's January 1909 Suez
Canal transit.
Note the local sailing craft underway on the river and moored
to its banks.
Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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