Image / Receiving ship Independence at Mare Island

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Title: Receiving ship Independence at Mare Island
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1872 and 1882]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: Mare Island photograph album, pg. [4].
1991-1145.
Shows ship with a couple of lifeboats.
Also have negative: no. 23,869.
Independence (ship of the line), laid down in Boston Navy Yard in 1812; launched in 1814. First came to California in 1846 under Commodore Shubrick; came to Mare Island in 1857 where served as receiving ship until 1912.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 10 x 13 in.
Identifier: (C)001627023CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Independence (Ship : 1814-1913)--Photographs
Ships of the line--California--Mare Island--Photographs
Warships--California--Mare Island
Naval shipyards & naval stations--California--Mare Island
Mare Island (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Mare Island
Mare Island (Calif.)

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