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Description NH 102774-KN (color): USS Bennington Monument, Fort Rosecrans, San Diego, California. Color-tinted postal card, published by H.L. Christiance, San Diego. This monument was erected in memory of the Navy personnel who lost their lives in the boiler explosion on board USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4) at San Diego on 21 July 1905. North Island is in the right background. One copy of this card was mailed at Long Beach, California, on 28 October 1922 with the following message: "Say Betsy! Pointing to Heaven. Looks like a long slender finger, doesn't it?." Courtesy of H.E. ("Ed") Coffer. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. (2016/01/04).
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Author National Museum of the U.S. Navy

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Photograph Curator at https://flickr.com/photos/127906254@N06/23551263223 (archive). It was reviewed on 10 July 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

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