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Photo # NH 45983:  USS Monocacy crewmen ice skating at Tonku, China, January 1897

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USS Monocacy (1866-1903) --
Laid Up in Winter Quarters


This page features views of USS Monocacy in winter quarters in China.

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 65784

    USS Monocacy
    (1866-1903) - in left center

    Laid up in winter quarters at Tientsin, China, 1894-95.
    The ship in the right center, housed over for the winter, is the German gunboat Wolf (1878-1919).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 580 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 63555

    USS Monocacy
    (1866-1903)

    Laid up in winter quarters in China, circa the 1890s.
    Location is probably Tongku, during the winter of 1896-97.
    Note Chinese with ice sleds in the foreground, ice boat at right, and flag painted on the photo at Monocacy's mainmast gaff.

    Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN(MC), 1931.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 137KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45982

    USS Monocacy
    (1866-1903)

    Some of her officers and crewmen ice skating near the ship, while she was laid up for the winter of 1897 at Tongku, China.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45983

    USS Monocacy
    (1866-1903)

    Some of her officers and crewmen ice skating near the ship, while she was laid up for the winter at Tongku, China, January 1897.
    Note men standing by the 37mm revolving cannon at Monocacy's bow and stern, a precaution against hostile action.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45984

    USS Monocacy
    (1866-1903)

    Article from a contemporary magazine, authored by Ensign Charles L. Poor, USN, describing how the ship was laid up in a mud dock at Tongku, China, for the winter of 1896-97.
    The photographs accompanying the article are all halftones.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 124KB; 620 x 675 pixels

     

    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