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145k | Undated, an illustration of Stiletto as originally built rigged to use sails. Scanned from Building The Mosquito Fleet: The U.S. Navy's First Torpedo Boats by Richard V. Simpsom. | Robert Hurst | |
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29k | Undated, location unknown. | Robert Hurst | |
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70k | Starboard bow view of USS Stilletto firing a torpedo, location unknown. Photo # 19-N-6851-A from Haze Gray & Underway. | Robert Hurst | |
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128k | Undated, U.S. Navy torpedo boats at dock in Newport Harbor at Goat Island. from left to right are USS Winslow, USS Stiletto, USS Morris and USS Porter. The Fall River - New York overnight steamer Pilgrim is in the far left background. NTS Photograph. Image and text from Building The Mosquito Fleet: The U.S. Navy's First Torpedo Boats, by Richard V. Simpson. | Robert Hurst | |
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202k | An illustration of the steam yacht Stiletto in her celebrated race against Atalanta, during the American Yacht Club Regatta, from Larchmont to New London, 11 June 1885. Image from The Frank Leslie Illustrated Newspaper. | Robert Hurst | |
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64k | Circa 1886, location unknown. | Robert Hurst | |
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109k | Two views of the Herreshoff designed torpedo boat Stilletto underway. The top image probably shows Stilletto as built. The bottom image shows Stilletto in 1887 with the America's Cup racing yacht Volunteer in the background. Photos by Nathaniel L. Stebbins, from Edward Burgess American & English Yachts (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887). | Robert Hurst | |
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96k | USS Stiletto (WTB-1) laid up in 1889 after a collision with a steam launch, alongside the Elm Street Pier, Newport, Rhode Island. Photo from from "Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905". | Robert Hurst | |
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The May 4, 1889 edition of the weekly journal Scientific American introducing its subscribers to the U.S. Navy's Wooden Torpedo Boat No.1, USS Stiletto, with this front page illustration. Courtesy Scientific American. | Robert Hurst | ||
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77k | Starboard side view of USS Stilletto (Wooden Torpedo Boat # 1) underway circa 1891, location unknown. Photo # 19-A-2-123 from Haze Gray & Underway. | Robert Hurst | |
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76k | The wooden torpedo boat USS Stiletto launches a Howell torpedo from a trainable tube, circa 1895, on the Sakonnet River, Tiverton, Rhode Island. Photographer unknown. | Robert Hurst | |
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52k | From left to right USS Cushing (Torpedo Boat # 1), USS Porter (Torpedo Boat # 6) and the USS Stiletto (Wooden Torpedo Boat 1), in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island Sound, Rhode Island, 18 December 1896. Photographer Frank H. Child. Nathanael Herreshoff was on board the Porter when this photograph was taken, and recorded the date in his diary as having been on December 18, 1896. Source: John Palmieri, Curator Herreshoff Marine Museum/America's Cup Hall of Fame; www.herreshoff.org. Part of George Albert Converse papers and photographs, 1861-1897. Courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. | Robert Hurst | |
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61k | From left to right USS Cushing (Torpedo Boat # 1), USS Porter (Torpedo Boat # 6) and the USS Stiletto (Wooden Torpedo Boat 1), in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island Sound, Rhode Island, 18 December 1896. Photographer Frank H. Child. Nathanael Herreshoff was on board the Porter when this photograph was taken, and recorded the date in his diary as having been on December 18, 1896. Source: John Palmieri, Curator Herreshoff Marine Museum/America's Cup Hall of Fame; www.herreshoff.org. Part of George Albert Converse papers and photographs, 1861-1897. Courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. | Robert Hurst | |
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233k | A Howell Mark 1 torpedo on the deck of USS Stiletto (WTB-1) , Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island, 1898. Stiletto's narrow beam is clearly visible. U.S. Navy photograph. | Robert Hurst | |
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131k | USS Stiletto (WTB-1) "on parade" in New York with the Atlantic Fleet. From The American Navy: Cuba and Hawaii, 1898. | Robert Hurst | |
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151k | 1903, location unknown. From Army & Navy Magazine. | Ron Reeves/Robert Hurst | |
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