OUR CARD/PHOTO # 184. CARD/PHOTO RATING: This pre Spanish American War 1897 US Navy photo of the harbor defense Ram USS KATAHDIN is in excellent all around condition and is a printed photo image made from an actual US Navy real photo.
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USS KATAHDIN SHIP’S HISTORY & SPANISH AMERICAN WAR SERVICE: The second KATAHDIN was launched by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, 4 February 1893; sponsored Miss Una Soley, daughter of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy; and commissioned at New York Navy Yard 20 February 18, Comdr. Richard P. Leary in command. /// The experimental, harbor-defense ram was a new departure in ship design, built to ride extremely low in the water with her bow awash while under way. Her hull embodied several new features later used in early submarines. /// KATAHDIN departed New York Harbor 4 March 1897, the day of President McKinley's first inauguration, and sailed to Norfolk before decommissioning at Philadelphia Naval Yard 17 April. /// A year later, with the Navy preparing for an impending war with Spain, she recommissioned there 10 March 1898. She was attached to the North Atlantic Squadron and operated along the Atlantic Coast from New England to Norfolk protecting the Nation's seaboard cities from possible attack. After decisive American naval victories at Manila Bay and Santiago Harbor eliminated this threat, the ram decommissioned for the last time at Philadelphia Navy Yard 8 October. /// However, KATAHDIN advanced knowledge of naval weaponry to her end. She was struck from the Navy List 9 July 1909; and designated "Ballistic
Experimental Target 'A'". KATAHDIN was sunk by gunfire at Rappahannock
Spit, Va., in September. /// US Navy battleship or other warship photo images, from the Spanish American War , are becoming increasingly scarce, whether the format is an actual real photograph , postcard printed photo or real photo , RPPC , CDV , stereoview or original lithograph print.
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PLEASE carefully REVIEW our scanned IMAGES to gain an overall perspective on the item's condition/quality/grading. If you have a question about this or any other item we have listed, please do not hesitate to "left-click" on the blue "Ask Seller A Question" tab above; send us an e-mail; we'll reply ASAP! Thank you. PLEASE NOTE: Any speckling, minor streaking and or greenish or brownish tinge you may see is strictly from scanning, unless we have noted otherwise!
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The US Navy postcard , real photo , rppc , print , stereoview or lithograph above is one of at least one hundred fifty (150) Spanish American War , Great White Fleet , pre-WWI , WWI and WWII , postcards, vintage real photograph and printed photographic images that we presently have listed. They include "official" US Navy postcards , real photos and stereoviews published by Enrique Muller (aka E. Muller, Jr.), perhaps the most prolific and noted Official U.S. Navy Photographer of his era (late 1890's up to the 1920's); and many other noted naval photographers of that era. There are also a number of other items rating at least VF/XF, including some very scarce hand tinted and printed photographic images of Navy battleships , cruisers , shipboard sailors life themes and Patriotic Postcards ; also, a number of USMC Marine Corps postcard , stereoview and or real photo items, and finally, other great USN “vintage stuff!”
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SHIPPING COST & METHODS AVAILABLE: Shipping in the USA will be $1.95 via 1st class mail. Your item will be wrapped in a polyethylene holder, well-protected in a cardboard sleeve and wrapped in “bubble wrap”; at YOUR OPTION we can ship via USPS "Priority Mail" at a cost of $4.95 (up to 1 pound); above 1 pound, rates vary by USPS shipping zone; we will tell you any additional cost due to your “postal zone”, if shipping weight is over one pound; this is the fastest and safest method available; PLEASE TELL US if you want this method. SHIPPING OUTSIDE THE USA will cost $3.50; again, your item will be wrapped in a polyethylene postcard holder, and well-protected in a cardboard sleeve. At YOUR OPTION we can ship via USPS "Priority Mail International" at a cost of $12.50 (fixed price flat rate envelope – 5 to 7 small paper items); this is a very fast and safe method; please tell us if you want this method. COMBINED SHIPMENTS: If a buyer, USA or non-USA wins more than one item, we will combine shipping, whenever possible, to save you $$$. SHIPPING SCHEDULE: We ship on Wednesday or Thursday and Saturday; 3-5 business days from date of sale.
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RETURN POLICY: Buyer may return item within 7 days of receipt, ONLY IF THE ITEM IS NOT AS DESCRIBED IN LISTING. Buyer pays return shipping, subject to refund if item does not match description, as to condition, vintage, origin, type, etc. Buyer MUST notify seller before returning item, indicating item concern(s); otherwise, return will NOT be accepted. We aim to satisfy and will work with you. THANK YOU.
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