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Title
U.S.S. Portsmouth
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1873 and 1874]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Plates in: Mare Island photograph album, pg. [12].
1991-1162.
Shows ship and lifeboats at anchor; Vallejo in background.
Sloop-of-war launched at Portsmouth, N.H. in 1843, commissioned in 1844. Operated along Mexican and California coast from 1845 to 1848; served in Civil War; survey assignments in eastern Pacific in 1873-74; returned to the East; struck from Navy lists in 1915.
Type
image
Format
Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photograph : print ; oval image 6 1/2 x 9 3/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001628909CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Mare Island Naval Shipyard--Photographs
Portsmouth (Sloop of war)--Photographs
Sloops--California--Mare Island--Photographs
Naval shipyards & naval stations--California--Mare Island
Warships--California--Mare Island
Buildings--California--Vallejo
Rivers--California--Vallejo
Mare Island (Calif.)--Photographs
Mare Island Strait (Calif.)--Photographs
Napa River (Calif.)--Photographs
Vallejo (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
Mare Island
Vallejo
Mare Island (Calif.)
Mare Island Strait (Calif.)
Napa River (Calif.)
Vallejo (Calif.)

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