Forecastle of the ship with one of her six-inch guns trained forward. Photo was taken just a few months before two of the boilers exploded and killed 65 of her crew.
Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
Black and White
Collection
Photograph Collection
Made/Created
Artist
United States Navy
Date made
1905
Place
Military
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Island
Mare Island, CA
City
Vallejo, CA
River
Sacramento River
Region
Northern California
State/Province
California
Country
USA
Continent
North America
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, Photographic
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Photograph
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Search Terms
Print, Photographic, U.S. Navy, III-A-1 U.S. Navy Early Types,, III-A-15 U.S. Navy Gunboats, Uss Bennington Maindeck Fwd
