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NH 57632 USS Arctic (1898)

Photo #: NH 57632 USS Arctic (1898)
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Title: USS Arctic (1898)
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Description: Officers and crew posed on her forecastle and upper deck, circa July-August 1898. During the Spanish-American War, this Philadelphia city iceboat served briefly in the Delaware River area as a U.S. Navy refrigerator ship. Note her 60-pounder breech-loading rifle, converted from a Civil War vintage Parrott gun. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 57632
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