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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 44709

USS Nipsic
(1879-1913)

Ship's Marines drilling on deck, circa the 1880s. Their rifles are of the "trap-door" Springfield type.
Photographed by Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco, California.
Note hammocks lashed and stowed in the hammock rails, details of standing rigging, fancy railings over hatches, capstain, and lookout with telescope standing on the bulwark.

Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN(MC), November 1931.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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20 March 2001