| Credit: | unknown photographer |
|---|---|
| Date: | 1865-1866 |
| Equipment: | block and tackle; bucket (metal); cannon; chain; rope; solid shot; tompion |
| Locations & Lines: | Bangor ME; Maine |
| Military Units: | US Navy |
| Transports: | gunboat; USS Tioga |
| Sources: | Naval History and Heritage Command |
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File Details: 2ASPm, 600 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 25.8 Mb
Image ID: 2ASP
Naval History and Heritage Command says: USS Tioga (1862-1867). View looking forward from atop her port paddle box, showing the gun crews at their posts. Taken at Bangor, Maine, during or shortly after the Civil War. Note: large Parrott rifled gun on a slide-pivot mount forward; 32-Pounder smoothbore gun nearer the camera; African-American sailor in the 32-Pounder gun’s crew; fire buckets, bearing the ship’s name, hung around the capstan; shot rack on the hatch in lower right; sail rigged to the foremast by hoops; windsail ventilator rigged abaft the mast; boat davits and rigging for masts and the smokestack.