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Spanish Battleship "Viscaya"

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Spanish Battleship "Viscaya"

A splendid picture of the pride of the Spanish navy, taken on the occasion of her visit to New York Harbor, when her captain hinted at his ability to blow holes through New York's sky-scrapers. In this picture the vessel makes a very beautiful appearance steaming out to sea under full headway. But what a contrast to a later Biograph picture when the vessel was a smoking hulk wrecked on the shore of Cuba, battered to pieces by the guns of the Oregon.

BIO 1902

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1	American Mutoscope and Biograph Company 444
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3	18/02/1898.	141 ft./24 ft. Tortolette.
	SPANISH SHIP ARRIVES. Man-of-War Vizcaya Anchored in New York Harbor. NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-The Spanish armored cruiser Vizcaya is in New York waters. She dropped her big anchors five miles south of Sandy Hook lightship at 5:30 p. m., after a thirteen day's voyage from the Canary islands. When her officers and men learned the startling news of the disaster to the American battleship Maine in Havana harbor and of the downfall of Former Minister De Lome they broke into a wild uproar of talk. For a couple of minutes all discipline on the great warship seemed to vanish to the winds. Men rushed below to tell their comrades in the lower decks. The nearest American warship is the cruiser Brooklyn, in Hampton Roads, 350 miles distant. The Brooklyn could not reach here in less than eighteen hours at the earliest. The Viscaya is one of the best modern men of war in the Spanish navy. Her displacement is 7,000 tons, her length 340 feet, draught 21 feet 6 inches and her horse power over 13,000. The Neosho Times, jeudi 24 février 1898, p. 7.
4	États-Unis. New York. Port.