Steam Ship Gallery

Naval battle off Puerto Rico, Spanish-American War

U.S. Navy cruiser "St Paul" shelling Spanish destroyer "Terror" off San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1898.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Us Navy squadron commanded by Matthew Perry sailing for Japan, 1852: USS Susquehannah, Saratoga, St Mary's, a supply ship, Plymouth, Perry in rowboat, Mississippi, and Princeton (left to right).
Hand-colored woodcut of an 1850s illustration

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First Atlantic crossing by steamship, 1819

American paddlewheeler "Savannah," the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, 1819.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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