Photo #: NH 54202
USS Enterprise (1877-1909)
Ship's XI-inch Dahlgren pivot gun "in action", probably
while she was at the New York Navy Yard, circa spring 1890.
Photographed by E.H. Hart, New York City.
View looks aft from the forecastle, with the navigating bridge
in the background.
Note the gun's iron carriage, Sailor at left holding a shell
(weighing about 127 pounds) in preparation for loading, and men
wearing double row loop cartridge belts for "trap-door Springfield"
rifles.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 54208-B
USS Enterprise (1877-1909)
Tripod-mounted Gatling gun on the quarterdeck, probably while
the ship was at the New York Navy Yard, circa spring 1890.
Photographed by E.H. Hart, New York City.
Note sea chest and round skylight in the foreground.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 54203
USS Enterprise (1877-1909)
Ship's Gatling gun and its crew posed on deck, probably while
she was at the New York Navy Yard, circa spring 1890.
Photographed by E.H. Hart, New York City.
View looks aft and to port, with the quarterdeck in the background.
Note the gun's field carriage.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 54204
USS Enterprise (1877-1909)
Landing party with three-inch rifled field gun drilling on a
wharf, with the ship behind them, probably while Enterprise
was at the New York Navy Yard, circa spring 1890.
Photographed by E.H. Hart, New York City.
Note the revolvers and cutlasses worn by many of these Sailors,
ship's pilothouse and bridge, and iron boat cradles by her port
bulwark.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 54205
USS Enterprise (1877-1909)
Sailors practicing with cutlasses on the ship's main deck, probably
while she was at the New York Navy Yard, circa spring 1890.
Photographed by E.H. Hart, New York City.
View looks forward from the quarterdeck.
Note Gatling gun on a field carriage in the lower left center,
and IX-inch Dahlgren guns at the midships gun ports.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 54206
USS Enterprise (1877-1909)
Two Sailors demonstrate cutlass fencing, while other crew members
look on, probably while the ship was at the New York Navy Yard,
circa spring 1890.
Photographed by E.H. Hart, New York City.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 54207
USS Enterprise (1877-1909)
"Rally on the Flag": Sailors and Marines in close combat
drill with small arms, probably while the ship was at the New
York Navy Yard, circa spring 1890.
Photographed by E.H. Hart, New York City.
Rifles are "trap-door Springfield" types. Some Sailors
are wearing double row loop cartridge belts.
Note the "bodies" on the deck, and the landing force
ammunition caisson in the lower right.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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