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Title: U.S.S. Tuscarora
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1872 and 1883]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: Mare Island photograph album, pg. [6].
Shows ship in Napa River, Vallejo in background.
1991-1150.
Screw sloop, laid down in 1861 in Philadelphia, PA by Merrick and Sons; commissioned in 1861. Served during Civil War; sailed for San Francisco in 1873 where surveyed the sea floor off the northwest coast to determine a suitable route for a submarine cable. Returned several times during 1870s to Mare Island; finally struck from Navy list in 1883.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; oval image 8 1/8 x 11 in.
Identifier: (C)001627166CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Mare Island Strait (Calif.)--Photographs
Tuscarora (Screw sloop)--Photographs
Naval shipyards & naval stations--California--Mare Island
Warships--California--Mare Island
Boat & ship industry--California--Mare Island
Rivers--California--Vallejo
Mare Island (Calif.)--Photographs
Vallejo (Calif.)--Photographs
Napa River (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Mare Island
Vallejo
Mare Island (Calif.)
Vallejo (Calif.)
Napa River (Calif.)

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