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Photo # NH 54220: Bending on the main sail after repair at sea on board USS Enterprise, circa 1905

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Enterprise (1877-1909) --
Miscellaneous and On Board Views


This page features miscellaneous views concerning USS Enterprise, and some views taken on board her.

For other images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Enterprise (1877-1909).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 66468

    USS Enterprise
    (1877-1909)

    Crewmen pose with the ship's XI-inch Dahlgren pivot gun, circa the later 1880s or early 1890s. This gun is mounted on an iron slide pivot carriage.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 54220

    USS Enterprise
    (1877-1909)

    Cadets bending on the main sail after repair at sea, circa 1905, while Enterprise was serving as Massachusetts Nautical training ship.
    Photographed by Paul R. Smith.
    Note the ship's double topsail rig.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 650 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 54221

    USS Enterprise
    (1877-1909)

    View looking forward along the starboard side, while under sail during her 1905 foreign cruise. Enterprise was then serving as Massachusetts Nautical training ship.
    Photographed by Paul R. Smith.
    Note helmsmen at left. The ship appears to have been fitted with a spar deck over her originally open waist.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 107KB; 650 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 54222

    USS Enterprise
    (1877-1909)

    Gilded pine eagle removed from the ship in 1910, when her hulk was burned off Point of Pines, Maine. The carving is marked "William E. Seward, 1881". It was later purchased at Searsport by Mr. Rubenstein, a dealer in Rockland, Maine.

    Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Index of American Design, Washington, D.C.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     

    For other images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Enterprise (1877-1909).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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