Cruising in the Caribbean with a Camera: Lecture Delivered May 7, 1903 at the New York Yacht Club Including Description of Globular Naval Battery Invented by the Author |
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... Squadron under Rear - Admiral Higginson , Com- mander - in - chief . His flag - ship , the Kearsarge , and the other battle - ships , Alabama , Illinois , Iowa , Massachusetts , Texas , and Indiana , were anchored in the bay on the west ...
... Squadron under Rear - Admiral Higginson , Com- mander - in - chief . His flag - ship , the Kearsarge , and the other battle - ships , Alabama , Illinois , Iowa , Massachusetts , Texas , and Indiana , were anchored in the bay on the west ...
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... squadron , whose ap- proach was very impressive . The Admiral sent his band of more than a dozen pieces to play on the Sea Fox . February 3d , we sailed from St. Kitts , saw Antigua in the distance , and passed near to Rodonda ...
... squadron , whose ap- proach was very impressive . The Admiral sent his band of more than a dozen pieces to play on the Sea Fox . February 3d , we sailed from St. Kitts , saw Antigua in the distance , and passed near to Rodonda ...
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... squadron of two seventy - fours , a corvette , a schooner , and eleven gunboats . In this engage- ment the stone sloop - of - war , Diamond Rock , killed and wounded seventy men and destroyed three gunboats , with a loss to herself of ...
... squadron of two seventy - fours , a corvette , a schooner , and eleven gunboats . In this engage- ment the stone sloop - of - war , Diamond Rock , killed and wounded seventy men and destroyed three gunboats , with a loss to herself of ...
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... Squadron , 8 Nymphs , 10 Ober , F. A. , 25 , 26 Olympia , 8 Orange Town , 21 Ozama River , 23 , 24 P Patents , 17 Mt. Pelée , 12 , 19 , 20 Muriel , yacht , 35 Peasant proprietors , 29 Philipsburg , 9 Pitons , 15 Pointe - à - Pitre , 19 44.
... Squadron , 8 Nymphs , 10 Ober , F. A. , 25 , 26 Olympia , 8 Orange Town , 21 Ozama River , 23 , 24 P Patents , 17 Mt. Pelée , 12 , 19 , 20 Muriel , yacht , 35 Peasant proprietors , 29 Philipsburg , 9 Pitons , 15 Pointe - à - Pitre , 19 44.
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... Squadron , 11 , 17 Valleys , 15 Steam yachts , 13 Venezuela , 14 Storms , 6 Vigilant , 22 Struthers , Captain , 35 Virgin Gorda , 9 Suffrage , 31 , 33 Virgin Islands , 5 , 9 Sugar , 10 , 30 , 32 Sugar cane , 20 Sugar plantations , 29 ...
... Squadron , 11 , 17 Valleys , 15 Steam yachts , 13 Venezuela , 14 Storms , 6 Vigilant , 22 Struthers , Captain , 35 Virgin Gorda , 9 Suffrage , 31 , 33 Virgin Islands , 5 , 9 Sugar , 10 , 30 , 32 Sugar cane , 20 Sugar plantations , 29 ...
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anchored ANSON PHELPS STOKES Ariadne armor bananas barbettes BATTERY U.S. LETTERS battle-ship BERTH British Captain Caribbean Sea Castries Cherry Garden cliff coast Colonial colored Columbus Croix cruise Cuba Diamond Rock dined Dominica drove eruption feet flag-ship FLOATING BATTERY Fontaine Chaude Fort-de-France Fredericksted Fruit Company GLOBULAR BATTERY U.S. Government House GRANTED APRIL Grenada Grenadines Guadeloupe harbor Havana Hayti island Jacmel Jamaica Kingston Kitts land large guns launch lecture LETTERS PATENT Lucia Mares-Caux Martinique Matuba miles mountain Naval night Ozama Ozama River passed close Pelée Pierre plantations political equality Ponce Port Antonio Porto Rico Positive G. M. purposes set race rail Rear-Admiral RESERVE COAL sailed past San Juan Santo Domingo Sea Fox shore sloop-of-war Soufrière Soufrière St spherical floating bat Squadron substantially spherical floating sugar Terre tons trade-winds Trident Trinidad U.S. LETTERS PATENT upper deck Vincent Virgin visited West Indies wind Yachtsmen YORK YACHT CLUB
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