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Title: U.S.S. Benecia at Mare Island
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1872 and 1875]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: Mare Island photograph album, pg. [4].
1991-1146.
Shows sloop and couple of launches alongside (one a steam launch).
Also have negative: no. 23,870.
Launched in 1868 by Portsmouth Navy Yard as Algoma (screw sloop-of-war); renamed Benecia in 1869. In 1872 was at Mare Island for repairs before joining North Pacific Squadron; decommissioned at Mare Island in 1875.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; oval image 10 3/4 x 13 1/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001627025CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Benicia (Ship : 1868-1875)--Photographs
Sloops--California--Mare Island--Photographs
Naval shipyards & naval stations--California--Mare Island
Warships--California--Mare Island
Launches--California--Mare Island
Mare Island (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Mare Island
Mare Island (Calif.)

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