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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: May 12, 2009
Caption: The USS Yorktown 1888 Ships Bell also on board
Additional Description: The second USS Yorktown, (PG-1) a steel-hulled, twin-screw gunboat in the United States Navy, was named in honor of the Battle of Yorktown (Battle of Yorktown) a major battle during the the American Revolutionary War, .... assigned to the "White Squadron"— in the autumn of 1889. Yorktown operated with that unit as it developed tactical maneuvers for use by the new steel-hulled naval vessels then coming into service in the United States Navy.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/USS_Yorktown_(1888)
Submitted: May 16, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p63590
File Size: 2.578 Megabytes

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