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NH 73127 USS Maryland

Photo #: NH 73127 USS Maryland
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Title: USS Maryland
Description: (Armored Cruiser # 8) View looking aft at her forward eight-inch gun turret and bridge, while she was steaming on the target range in Manila Bay, Philippine Islands, circa 1906. Photographed by F.B. Way, a crew member, who presented it to F.M. Deats with the following poem inscribed on its reverse: I hold the thunder, flame is my breath Monstrous I swim, swollen with death All man's achievements centered in me At the crown of his knowledge, I blast the sea Donation of F.M. Deats, 1963. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 73127
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