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Online Library of Selected Images-- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 75566

USS Olympia (C-6)

View of the ship's forward 8"/35 gun turret, showing plaque between the guns commemorating the Battle of Manila Bay, 1 May 1898. Plaque ribbon inscription is "Gridley you may fire when ready". Photographed circa 1900. Note sailor in front of the turret, wearing a red cross armband.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, 1972.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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27 March 1998