Spanish cruiser REINA MERCEDES after being raised in Santiago de Cuba harbor, 1899

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
Cuba, Santiago de Cuba
1899-03-03
paper
4-3/8 x 6-1/2 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.4 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten in negative at bottom "Former Spanish Cruiser 'Reina Mercedes' just after being floated/ by Merritt & Chapman D&W Co. at Santiago, Cuba, March 3, 1899."; port view of REINA MERCEDES after raised in Santiago de Cuba harbor, 1899; during Spanish-American War, 1898, the Spanish sank REINA MERCEDES as a blockade, the US captured the vessel, and after the war it was salvaged by Merritt & Chapman and towed to Norfolk Navy Yard, Norfolk Virginia.

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