Photo #: NH 1132
Battle of Santiago, 3 July 1898
Watching the battle from the deck of USS Iowa (Battleship
# 4).
Note the volume of dense gun smoke around the ship in left center.
Copied from the Journal of Naval Cadet Cyrus R. Miller.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 79957
Robert Penn, Fireman Second Class, USN
"An explosion was averted by their quickness."
Halftone reproduction of an artwork by Bacon, depicting Robert
Penn's heroism in a fireroom accident on board USS Iowa
(Battleship # 4) on 20 July 1898, during the Spanish-American
War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions in that incident.
Copied from Deeds of Valor, Volume II, page 405, published
in 1907 by the Perrien-Keydel Co., Detroit, Michigan.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 46633
U.S. Pacific Station warships
In Magdalena Bay, Baja California, Mexico, circa 1900. The ships
are, from left to right: USS Marblehead (Cruiser # 11),
USS Philadelphia (Cruiser # 4) and USS Iowa (Battleship
# 4).
The original photograph was found in old Bureau of Navigation
files in June 1941.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 85736
U.S. Naval Academy practice cruise, 1911
Battleships Iowa (Battleship # 4) -- front left center
-- Indiana (Battleship # 1) and Massachusetts (Battleship
# 2) at Kiel, Germany, during the Academy practice cruise, Summer
1911.
Ships of the German fleet are in the background.
Collection of Lieutenant Ralph F. Nourse, donated by Lieutenant
Commander J.R. Bradley, 1961.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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