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USS Vandalia at anchor, while serving as flagship of the Pacific Station. Photo by Edward H. Hart now in the collections of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. This is the same photo as Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 44797. |
Robert Hurst and Bill Gonyo |
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USS Vandalia at anchor off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 1888.
US Navy photo. |
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USS Vandalia rigging plan.
US Navy photo. |
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At the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, probably at the completion of her construction in early 1876
Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 63408 |
Robert Hurst |
098605713 |
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Fitting out in drydock at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, circa early 1876. Behind her, at right, is USS Adam, also fitting out. In the distance is the Navy Yard's receiving ship, USS Ohio
Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 44794 |
Robert Hurst |
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At the New York Navy Yard, circa the later 1870s or the early 1880s.
US Naval History and Heritage Command NH 58662 |
Bill Gonyo |
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Former President Ulysses S. Grant (center, seated) with his wife and son, and ship's officers, on board Vandalia, during his 1877-78 Mediterranean cruise on board that ship. Former President Grant and his party boarded Vandalia at Villefranche, France, on or about 13 December 1877. They left the ship at Naples, Italy, on 18 March 1878, following visits to ports in Italy, Egypt, Turkey and Greece.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 61138 |
Bill Gonyo |
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Capt. Richard W. Meade attained the rank of Captain while commanding Vandalia in the North Atlantic and West Indies in 1879-1882.
Library of Congress photo cwpb 05437 |
Bill Gonyo |
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Oil painting by A. Jacobsen, 1885
Donated by F.H. Davis, 1963
Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 42299 |
Robert Hurst |
098605704 |
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At the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, circa March 1886. "Sailed from Portsmouth Navy Yard, 25 March 1886."
Photographed by L.V. Newell, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Courtesy of N.F. Toczko, 1972
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 55843 |
Bill Gonyo |
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At the New York Navy Yard in the summer of 1886, while preparing for service on the Pacific Station. The receiving ship Vermont is in the right distance
Photographed by E.H. Hart, 1162 Broadway, New York City
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 44796 |
Bill Gonyo |
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USS Vandalia Marine guard drilling on her gun deck during the summer of 1886, while she was preparing for service on the
Pacific Station. Vandalia is in Dry Dock # 1 at the New York Navy Yard, with Building # 20 in the background. View looks forward from the quarterdeck.
Note white tropical trousers and pith helmets worn by the Marines, most of whom are holding trap-door Springfield rifles, with fixed bayonets. The original print is a
letterpress reproduction, published circa the 1880s. Photographer was probably E.H. Hart, 1162 Broadway, New York City.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 42294. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Vandalia officers on the gun deck, just forward of the port side quarterdeck ladder, at the New York Navy Yard in the
summer of 1886, while Vandalia was preparing for service on the Pacific Station. Her Commanding Officer, Captain Henry L. Howison, is standing at left.
Probably photographed by E.H. Hart, 1162 Broadway, New York City. Note tropical uniforms, with white pith helmets.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 61. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Vandalia Marines and Sailors lined up for inspection on the gun deck during the summer of 1886, while she was preparing
for service on the Pacific Station. Photographed while Vandalia was in Dry Dock # 1 at the New York Navy Yard, with Building # 20 in the background.
View looks forward from the quarterdeck. Note white tropical trousers and pith helmets worn by officers and Marines. Marines are armed with trap-door Springfield rifles,
with bayonets fixed. Sailors are armed with cutlasses. Photographer was probably E.H. Hart, 1162 Broadway, New York City.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 42298. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Vandalia ship's Company (all enlisted men) pose amidships on the gun deck during the summer of 1886, while she was
preparing for service on the Pacific Station. Photographed while Vandalia was in Dry Dock # 1 at the New York Navy Yard, with Building # 20 in the
background. View looks forward from the quarterdeck. Note IX-inch Dahlgren guns and manual pump (just forward of the hatch) in the foreground. Photographer was
probably E.H. Hart, 1162 Broadway, New York City.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 42297. |
Robert Hurst |
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Captain Henry L. Howison was in command of Vandalia from February 1886 to June 1888
Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 66247 |
Bill Gonyo |
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USS Vandalia's officers in the ward room in 1887, while she was on the Pacific Station. The officer seated at right, holding
a pith helmet, is Passed Assistant Engineer Alexander B. Bates.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 61134. |
Robert Hurst |
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Ship's officers posed on deck, while she was flagship of the Pacific Station, circa 1888. Photographed at Honolulu, Hawaii.
Those present are seated, left to right: Lieutenant John C. Wilson;Chief Engineer George J. Burnap; Lieutenant James W. Carlin; Captain Henry L. Howison, Commanding Officer; Paymaster Frank H. Arms; Surgeon Hosea J. Babin; and Lieutenant Charles E. Fox.
Standing, left to right: Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Horace M. Witzel; Passed Assistant Engineer Alexander B. Bates; Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Thomas M. Brumby; Naval Cadet Harold K. Hines; Naval Cadet Samuel P. Edmunds; Naval Cadet Edward Moale, Jr.; Naval Cadet Charles E. Johnston; Naval Cadet Samuel B. Winram; Lieutenant Hawley O. Rittenhouse; Carpenter Joseph B. Fletcher; Assistant Surgeon Francis W.F. Wieber; Naval Cadet George F. Cooper; Ensign Charles E. Sweeting; Lieutenant Greenlief A. Merriam; First Lieutenant George F. Elliott, USMC; Pay Clerk John Roche; Assistant Engineer Walter M. McFarland; and Naval Cadet William G. McMillan.
Paymaster Arms and Pay Clerk Roche lost their lives when Vandalia was sunk in the 15-16 March 1889 hurricane at Apia, Samoa.
Collection of Lieutenant Edward Moale, Jr.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 91970 |
Bill Gonyo |
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Firing salutes off the Port mouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, circa the 1880s. Possibly photographed in March 1886, when Vandalia left Portsmouth after overhaul
Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 42295 |
Robert Hurst |
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Captain C. M. Schoonmaker, who commanded the Vandalia, was appointed to the navy from New York in 1854 and rose from the grade of acting midshipman to that of captain, to which he was commissioned 7
October 1886.
Library of Congress photo cph 3c09752 |
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