13251. (mounted photo) Chief Engineer & Assistant Engineering Officers, U.S.S. Alliance c.1880-1900.
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13251. (mounted photo) Chief Engineer & Assistant Engineering Officers, U.S.S. Alliance c.1880-1900.
13251. (mounted photo) Chief Engineer & Assistant Engineering Officers, U.S.S. Alliance c.1880-1900. Original period mounted photograph measures 7” x 9 ½” on 8” x 10 ½” mount. Photo labeled “Chief Eng & Assistants. USS Alliance. Rare, very close portrait view shows great detail of the three Naval officers seated on the quarterdeck of the USS Alliance. Included in the view is the helm and compass, sword rack and much more. This second USS Alliance was a screw gunboat that was in service from 1877-1911 with the United States Navy. Laid down as Huron, a screw gunboat of the third rate, in 1873 at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Alliance was launched on 8 March 1875. Alliance sailed with the European Squadron for a number of years. After 1902 she was attached to the Atlantic Training Squadron, and was among the ships reviewed by President Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, Long Island, on 17 August 1904. The ship’s last duty commenced soon thereafter, when she was dispatched to Puerto Rico to serve as station ship and store ship at the naval station there. Regarded as “unserviceable for war purposes”, she was decommissioned at San Juan on 7 July 1911. Photo is clear and close, just a bit light, and is quite clean and presentable. Will look fine framed. (VG+). $148.