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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 99992

Torpedo boat steaming at high speed, 1899


This is probably USS MacKenzie (Torpedo Boat # 17).
Copied from "The New Navy of the United States", by N.L. Stebbins, (New York, 1912).

Donation of David Shadell, 1987.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 36KB; 740 x 230 pixels

Note:
Though identified in the original publication as USS Gwin (Torpedo Boat # 16), the ship seen here much more closely resembles USS MacKenzie.

 

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Image posted 19 January 2005
Caption corrected 26 January 2005