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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 61699

USS Boston
(1887-1946)

Underway, circa the early 1900s, after her sailing rig had been removed and other modifications made.
Note the new-type gun shield fitted to her forward eight-inch gun.

Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN(MC), 1935.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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29 January 2003