Posted on 09/27/2016 3:48:23 PM PDT by NRx
A (mostly) daily posting for those interested in history and the day to day news, politics and culture of a bygone world; the full edition of the New York Tribune from today's date in 1896 (digitized).
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The USS Bancroft (at the bottom of the first page) was the training ship for the naval academy. It was a gunboat, not a cruiser, and it had an assortment of weapons for training purposes.
DANFS entry here (rather more verbose than found for many larger, better know, ships):
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/bancroft-i.html
Glad to see the Czar enjoying himself. He doesn’t know it but he’ll need to cram a lifetime into the next 10 years.
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