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CRUISER TACOMA TO LEAVE WAYS
Invitations Out for the Launching of War Vessel |
Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA
Photo from The San Francisco Call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 24 May 1903, Image 30, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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SET FREE BY THE HANDS OF NORTHERN CITY'S FAIREST DAUGHTERS, PROTECTED CRUISER TACOMA IS LAUNCHED AT THE UNION YARDS
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Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA
Photo from The San Francisco Call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 03 June 1903, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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NEW CRUISER TACOMA MAKES MORE THAN CONTRACT SPEED
Latest Product of Union Iron Works Is Given Her First Trial and Proves Herself a Wonder, Both as a Rapid, Traveler and for Ease With Which She Handles |
Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA
Photo from The San Francisco Call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 29 October 1903, Image 14, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Stern view at Mare Island during commissioning, 20 January
1904. |
Darryl Baker |
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Starboard side view at Mare Island, 20 January 1904. |
Darryl Baker |
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Portside view while at anchor at Mare Island, 15 April 1904. |
Darryl Baker |
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Portside view while at anchor at Mare Island, 15 April 1904. |
Darryl Baker |
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USS Tacoma (Cruiser No. 18). circa 1905. |
Photo Digital Id det 4a15512, courtesy of Detriot Publishing Company via loc.gov |
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MAGNIFICENT SERVICE OF SILVER IS DESIGNED FOR CRUISER TACOMA
People of Northern City Will Present to the Warship an Elegant Expression of Their Wishes That It May Serve Its Purpose for Maintenance of Peace and Triumph if War Clouds Gather |
Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA
Photo from The San Francisco Call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 20 April 1904, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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TRIM CRUISER TACOMA IS HERE |
Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI.
Photo from The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 15 May 1904, Sunday Advertiser, Image 11, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Lost Island and Lost Ship Searched For By Big Cruiser
Speedy Cruiser Is Now at Washington Navy Yard After Voyages Which Aggregated Mileage Equal to Three Trips Around the World
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Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from The Washington Times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 11 December 1906, Last Edition, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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CRUISER TACOMA DAMAGED BY GROUNDING |
Image and text provided by University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE.
Photo from Evening Journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 09 April 1908, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Real Photo Post Card of USS Tacoma (Cruiser No. 18). The sailor
wrote home to his mother and brother and mailed the card aboard ship,
as there is a Postmark for USS Tacoma on 6 January 1911. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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Real Photo Post Card of USS Tacoma (Cruiser No. 18). The sailor
wrote home to his mother and brother and mailed the card aboard ship,
as there is a Postmark for USS Tacoma on 6 January 1911. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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Port side view in 1912, location unknown. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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A MEXICAN BATTLE FROM THE CROW'S NEST
This vivid description of the battle of Tamplco was written by Edmund J. Flynn, second class yeoman on the cruiser USS Tacoma (Cruiser No. 18). Flynn formerly was a newspaper reporter. He has been In the navy three years and is 24 years old. He was born in newspaper atmosphere, as his father, Joseph Flynn, now living in Los Angeles, Cal, was for many yeans a newspaper man in Missouri. As young Flynn watched the fighting from his boat, he kept saying to himself over and over again: "Wouldn't this make a bully story for the newspapers." This is his story.
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Image and text provided by University of Utah, Marriott Library.
Photo from The Ogden Standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1913-1920, 24 January 1914, 4 o'clock p.m. City Edition, MAGAZINE SECTION, Image 15, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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UNITED STATES CRUISER TACOMA and its commander, Commander Twining, ordered from Santo Domingo to Colon as a result of the requests of Colonel Goethals for warships to preserve neutrality in the waters of the canal zone. |
Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE.
Photo from Omaha Daily Bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 23 December 1914, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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USS Denver (Cruiser No. 16) and USS Tacoma (Cruiser No. 18) at
Mare Island between 19 August 1919 and 10 January 1920. |
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Starboard side, underway, 1910. |
Chuck Munson |
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STARTING HOME
Bodies of victims of the cruiser Tacoma (CL 20) being transferred to the navy repair vessel Prometheus (AR-3) for shipment home, following the grounding of the Tacoma in Vera Cruz harbor with loss of four lives. |
Image and text provided by Rutgers University Libraries.
Photo from Perth Amboy Evening News. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 08 February 1924, FINAL EDITION, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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LAST OF THE CRUISER TACOMA.
This first picture of the U. S. Cruiser Tacoma (CL 20) shows her wrecked on the rocks outside Vera Cruz, Mexico, to which she had been dispatched to protect American interests. It was reported she grounded in a gale because Mexican rebels had removed navigation lights. In a storm which swept her later Captain Sparrow, her commander, and two wireless men who had remained on board were killed. |
Image and text provided by Alaska State Library Historical Collections.
Photo from The Alaska Daily Empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 06 March 1924, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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HERO OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY IS BURIED AT ARLINGTON
Two pictures showing the last rites for Captain Herbert G. Sparrow at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday afternoon. Capt. Sparrow and three radio men lost their lives when the cruiser Tacoma (CL 20), went on the rocks just outside the harbor of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Upper photograph shows the buglers blowing Taps, and the lower shows the funeral procession winding through the famous cemetery on the wav to the grave
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Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from Evening Star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 15 February 1924, Image 16, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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