Always a great place to find some great old photographs and even better since you can blow them up for unbelievable detail, the Shorpy site featured this era in US Navy history with photos taken aboard the USS Maine, USS Brooklyn and USS Oregon as well as at the US Naval Academy back then as well.
The USNA photos were of the baseball team and the Class of 1894, all 23 of them.
There were also two pictures taken below deck on the Brooklyn c. 1897 and a boxing match on the Oregon the same year.
Yesterday, there was a picture of some of the unfortunate USS Maine's crew dressed for a masquerade ball and a gun gang in 1896, two years before the unfortunate explosion in Havana Harbor, Cuba, which prompted the US entry into war with Spain.
Of interest, there were black sailors serving aboard the ships, indicating that they were not segregated at the time.
A Real Trip Back. Thanks Shorpy. --Cooter
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