Photo #: NH 73127
USS Maryland (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 Historical Center Photograph.
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