Description:-USS Reina Mercedes, Annapolis, Maryland
Item Specifics: Postcard.
Postcard Type:- Undivided Back Postcard (ca. 1901-1907)
Card Dated: --Non Posted
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View Location- Annapolis, Maryland
View Subject_:-USS Reina Mercedes (IX-25) was an unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy which was captured in Cuba in 1898 by the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War. She was refurbished and used by the U.S. Navy as a non-self-propelled receiving ship at Newport, Rhode Island, and subsequently as a detention vessel and barracks ship for the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, until 1957.
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Condition:-VG-
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