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Circa 1900. "Cruiser U.S.S. Newark." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company.
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Combination power and sail:
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kinda like a hybrid car, not much good either way.
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varian: 30465963930395/comments/30465963984539
kinda like a hybrid car, not much good either way.
Yep.😉
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Coaling these ships was a disgusting and dirty job. That and the institutional skepticism of them new-fangled piston engines resulted in the retention of sail as a back up.
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Don McManus: 30465963930395/comments/30465986164379
Coaling these ships was a disgusting and dirty job. That and the institutional skepticism of them new-fangled piston engines resulted in the retention of sail as a back up.
Don, my great grandfather served in the US Navy during the age of coal and taking on coal was a job so horrible that it is hard to imagine it. With that said, they had to take on coal every week- sometimes more often.
I may have shown his photo before, but this is my great grandpa Jonny in the pre-WWI US Navy.
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