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Loading MEADE
1913 Feb. 19.
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negative.
Photo shows U.S. Army transport ship Meade with American Marines
mobilizing at League Island, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, PA, in Feb.
1913, before going to Guantanamo, Cuba, in response to the Mexican
Revolution. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008, and New York Times
articles)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.12612
Call Number: LC-B2- 2647-13
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Kenchy added this photo to his favorites. (48 months ago)
Kilted Cowboy (46 months ago | reply)
originally ss City of Berlin of the Inman line.
Maiden voyage 29th April 1875 Liverpool/Queenstown/New York. Made several record breaking passages. Of which the best was 7 days 15 hours and 28 minutes from Sandy Hook to Queenstown.
She was the first North Atlantic liner to be fitted with internal electric lighting, in 1879
Purchased by US Army Quartermaster Corps as a transport in Spanish~American War as USS MEADE.
Scrapped - 1921
www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?i d=15236
www.greatships.net/cityofberlin.html
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