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Photo # NH 66306:  USS Monocacy towing landing boats in the Han River, Korea, 1871

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USS Monocacy (1866-1903) --
Actions & Activities


This page features views of USS Monocacy's actions and activities.

For more views of this ship, see:

  • USS Monocacy (1866-1903).


    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 66306

    USS Monocacy
    (1866-1903)

    Towing landing boats in the Han River, during the Korean expedition of May-June 1871.

    Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN(MC).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 545 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 63655

    Korean Expedition, 1871


    USS Monocacy (at left) and USS Palos (right) in the Han River, Korea, in May-June 1871.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 625 pixels

     
    Photo #: USMC 306075

    U.S. Marines landing on Kang-Wa Island, in the Han River, Korea, 10 June 1871


    Oil painting by John Clymer, USMCR, depicting the landing of Marine infantry and field artillery, as USS Monocacy provides gunfire support in the background.
    At the time this photograph was taken, in the early 1950s, the painting hung in the home of the Commandant of the Marine Corps, in Washington, DC.

    U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.

    Online Image: 109KB; 590 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 63683

    USS Monocacy
    (1866-1903)

    Ship's officers and crew on deck, during the Korean expedition of May-June 1871.
    Standing to the left front, wearing a sun helmet, is Monocacy's Commanding Officer, Commander Edward P. McCrea.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 133KB; 740 x 635 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 63684

    USS Monocacy
    (1866-1903)

    Ship's officers pose by one of her guns, during the Korean expedition of May-June 1871.
    The Commanding Officer, Commander Edward P. McCrea, is 3rd from the right, wearing a white sun helmet.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 93707

    USS Monocacy
    (1866-1903)

    At the landing with a hole through her bow made by a Chinese shell, during the burning of Tongku, China, circa June 1900.
    Photo printed on a stereograph card, copyrighted in 1901 by Underwood & Underwood.

    Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1982

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 102KB; 635 x 675 pixels

    A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 93707-A

    Online Image of stereo pair: 67KB; 675 x 355 pixels

     

    For views of Monocacy's Commanding Officer on board another ship during the 1871 Korean Expedition, see:

  • Photo # NH 63678 (complete caption) and Photo # NH 66308 (complete caption).

    For more views of this ship, see:

  • USS Monocacy (1866-1903).

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


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    Page made 27 June 2001
    Links to new images added 13 April 2002