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U.S.S. California built at Mare Island Navy Yard Mare Island, California : keel laid October 25th, 1916 ; launched November 20th, 1919 ; commissioned August 10th, 1921
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U.S. Navy Yard : at Mare Island, California
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Artists: Dunlap, J. B. Publishers: Britton & Rey
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Photographs of United States Navy ships, United States Navy Yard at Mare Island, and the Grand Canyon
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Consists of 12 photographs. photPF 2414-2417 are of Commodore Dewey's U.S.S. Olympia at Manila in 1916, the U.S.S. Charleston in the Panama Canal Zone on September 8, 1916, the U.S.S. Tennessee in the Panama Canal Zone on April 27, 1916, and the U.S.S. Horace X. Baxter at San Pedro in approximately 1915-1930. photPF 2418-2423 depicts the United States Navy Yard at Mare Island, California and includes buildings such as the officers' residences, the entrance and gate house, the U.S. Navy Hospital, naval employees, and other federal buildings. photPF 2424-2425 are of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River.
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U.S.S. San Diego, cruiser : named for the city of San Diego, California, built by the Beth. Steel Co., Quincy, Mass
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"This book has been prepared so that every officer and man who served in the San Diego during the strenuous years of the war may have a modest record of his achievements."--P. [7].
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The schooner Yacht Westward, 323 tons designed and built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. Bristol, Rhode Island - launched on March 3, 1910
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The Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection contains 190 items that pertain to commercial, naval, and recreational maritime-related activities primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. Materials date from approximately 1700 to 1990, with the bulk dating from 1800-1935. The collection consists of prints (engravings, etchings, aquatints, and lithographs), photographs, manuscript materials, publications, portfolios and bound volumes, and a single painting. The items deal primarily with whaling, yachting, and naval battles, and the vessels and people involved in these activities. The collection contains materials as diverse as early 18th-century engravings of whaling expeditions, letters from sailors working on whaling vessels during the 19th century, photographs of yachts competing for the America's Cup in the early 20th century, 19th-century lithographs of naval ships engaged in battle, and letters of marque and safe conduct signed by presidents of the United States, from George Washington to James Buchanan. Includes some letters and bills of sale of William Hathaway Jr. of New Bedford, Massachusetts. These items offer a wealth of information regarding the vessels that operated throughout three centuries, as well as the fishermen, sailors, and sportsmen who manned them.
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Mare Island Straits California : from a trigonometric survey under the direction of A.D. Bache, Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States triangulation by R.D. Cutts, Asst topography by R.D. Cutts, Asst and A.F. Rodgers, Sub-Asst hydrography by the party under the command of Comdr. James Alden, U.S.N
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No old shelf mark. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: Mare Island Calif.
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