File:USS Arctic (1873) in 1898.jpg

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Description

USS Arctic in harbor, mid-1898. Originally the municipal icebreaker Ice Boat No. 3, the vessel served briefly as USS Arctic in 1898 during the Spanish-American War. The difference between this image and the other extant photo indicate that this vessel was a double-ender, with a smaller pilothouse astern as shown here.

Date

mid 1898

Source

Navsource - originally a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo transferred to NARA as photo #19-N-14959, ex 19-17-2.

Author

US Navy

Permission
(Reusing this file)

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Ice Boat No. 3