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Photo #: NH 46861 Pelayo (Spanish Battleship, 1887-1926) Photographed during the 1890s. This French-built battleship was reboilered and partially rearmed in 1897. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 52,046 bytes; 590 x 630 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 63229 Cristobal Colon (Spanish Armored Cruiser, 1896-1898) Photographed in 1897-98. Built in Italy, this ship's two ten-inch main battery guns had still not been installed when she was lost in the Battle of Santiago, Cuba, 3 July 1898. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 51,491 bytes; 740 x 460 pixels |
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Photo #: NR&L(O) 17299 Cristobal Colon (Spanish Armored Cruiser, 1896-1898) Ship's officers, photographed in 1897-98. Note empty gun shield in the right background, intended for one of her never-installed ten-inch main battery guns. Courtesy of Mrs. Harry Goddard, Hayward, CA, 1942. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 63,948 bytes; 740 x 545 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 88603 Infanta Maria Teresa (Spanish Armored Cruiser, 1890-1898) Probably photographed in 1895, at opening ceremonies in Germany for the Kiel Canal. This ship was lost in the Battle of Santiago, Cuba, 3 July 1898. Copied from Office of Naval Intelligence Album of Foreign Warships. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 54,362 bytes; 740 x 556 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 88738 Almirante Oquendo (Spanish Armored Cruiser, 1891-1898) Photographed circa 1893-97. She was lost in the Battle of Santiago, Cuba, 3 July 1898. Copied from Office of Naval Intelligence Album of Foreign Warships. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 53,606 bytes; 740 x 586 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 57996 Viscaya (Spanish Armored Cruiser, 1891-1898) Photographed prior to her loss in the Battle of Santiago, Cuba, 3 July 1898. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 52,708 bytes; 740 x 467 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 61231 Reina Mercedes (Spanish Cruiser, 1887-1898) Photographed prior to 1898. She was scuttled at Santiago, Cuba, in July 1898. Later raised by the U.S. Navy, she served as an accommodation ship at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, until scrapped in 1957. Her sister ship, Reina Cristina, was the Spanish flagship in the Battle of Manila Bay, 1 May 1898, and was lost in that action. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Academy, 1941. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 72,342 bytes; 740 x 622 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 46854 Spanish Cruiser of the Aragon Class Photographed circa the 1880s or 1890s. The three ships of this class were Aragon (1879-1900), Navarra (1881-1899) and Castilla (1881-1898). The latter ship was sunk in the Battle of Manila Bay, 1 May 1898. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 52,446 bytes; 740 x 491 pixels |
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21 February 1998