File:NH 85666 USS Tioga (1862-1867) (27230293536).jpg

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Description NH 85666: USS Tioga (1862-1867). View looking forward from atop her port paddle box, showing the gun crews at their posts. Taken at Bangor, Maine, during or shortly after the Civil War. Note: large Parrott rifled gun on a slide-pivot mount forward; 32-Pounder smoothbore gun nearer the camera; African-American sailor in the 32-Pounder gun's crew; fire buckets, bearing the ship's name, hung around the capstan; shot rack on the hatch in lower right; sail rigged to the foremast by hoops; windsail ventilator rigged abaft the mast; boat davits and rigging for masts and the smokestack. Courtesy of Lieutenant Colonel W.J. O'Brien. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. (2016/05/26).
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Photograph Curator at https://flickr.com/photos/127906254@N06/27230293536 (archive). It was reviewed on 11 July 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

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