1870s 1880s USS ESSEX US Navy SLOOP Ship 6 CREW PHOTO Named ID\'d BROTHERS for Sale

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1870s 1880s USS ESSEX US Navy SLOOP Ship 6 CREW PHOTO Named ID\'d BROTHERS For Sale

$1870s 1880s USS ESSEX US Navy SLOOP Ship 6 CREW PHOTO Named ID\'d BROTHERS$
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1870s 1880s USS ESSEX US Navy SLOOP Ship 6 CREW PHOTO Named ID\'d BROTHERS:
$189.99

I HAVE OTHER LOTS OF VINTAGE/ANTIQUE PHOTOS. THESE, AND THE OTHER LOTS LISTED, ALL CAME FROM AN ESTATE IN MISSOURI. THERE ARE LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF PHOTOS. I\'M PUTTING THEM IN LOTS OF SIMILAR AGE/TYPE. I COMBINE sales TO SAVE ON SHIPPING COSTS! Thank you and enjoy browsing my store!

Here is a RARE photograph! This is a photo of 6 crew members of the USS ESSEX. The photo is marked on the front: SAWYERS 159 N. 8th St Philadelphia, PA\". According to the writing on the back, the man standing on the right is the \"Humble Servant\" owner. The others were his friends and crew mates. It also appears there are 2 brothers (the last name is the same: Nyhan). These early photos are tough to find and even harder to find with them identified!! There is some wear on the corners of the back board, but the photo is fine. THE FOLLOWING WAS COPIED/PASTED FROM THE INTERNET ABOUT THE USS ESSEX:

The construction of theU.S.S. Essexwas authorized by President Abraham Lincoln shortly before he was assassinated but it was delayed for several years. The decaying condition of the navy eventually resulted in a special Congressional act, approved February 10, 1873, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to construct eight war vessels, the aggregate tonnage of the whole not to exceed eight thousand tons. The act specified that four of the vessels, in whole or in part, should be built by the lowest responsible buyers in public competition. Donald McKay successfully offer for the construction of two vessels under this act and contracts for the sloops of warU.S.S.AdamsandEssexwere awarded to him. Under the same form of dual superintendence, as in the case of theAdams, the wooden screw steamerEssex, possessing exactly the same dimensions and tonnage, was built by Donald McKay at the Kitter Navy Yard. TheEssex\'skeel was laid in 1874 and the contract for its machinery was secured by the Atlantic Works.

TheDetroit Free Press, Nov. 22, 1930, reported theEssexwas commissioned in Boston on Oct. 3, 1876, and entrusted to the command of Winfield Scott Schley of Spanish War fame. It was assigned shortly afterward to the North Atlantic Station. During the following year, theEssexcruised to Liberia along the west coast of Africa and in 1878-1879 joined the South Atlantic Squadron. It sailed on the Pacific Station from Nov. 1881 to Dec. 1882 and thence on the Asiatic Station for two years during which it took on board Captain S.H. Morrison and crew members of the shipwreckedRanier.

Via Singapore, East Africa and Cape of Good Hope, theEssexreturned to the United States in 1884. It was placed out of commission at the New York Navy Yard, Jan. 15, 1885. On June 21, 1886, it was recommissioned and returned to Asiatic Station via the Suez Canal. It visited Ponapai, East Carolina Group, in Oct. 1886, to investigate a reported massacre of Spaniards and afforded protection to American missionaries. TheEssexleft the Asiatic Station in Jan., 1889, returning to United States via the Suez Canal and on May 11th of the same year was placed out of commission at the New York Navy Yard.

TheEssexwas recommissioned on April 22, 1890, and from June 30 to July 8, it took part in the Reunion Ceremonies of the Army of Potomac at Portland, Maine. Afterwards it served on the South Atlantic Station from Oct., 1890, to Jan., 1893. It was stationed at Annapolis with cadets on board for instruction in April, 1893, and again went out of commission at Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia, June 13, 1893. TheEssexwas again recommissioned Jan. 31, 1894, and served as an apprentice training ship until put out of commission at Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 6, 1898. It was recommissioned Sep. 29th, 1898, and continued in training service until placed out of commission at Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Dec. 5, 1903.

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