W.A. COLLIER ~ USS POMPEY WOOD SOUVENIR FROM CARDENAS CUBA 1898
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APPROX. 13" X 35" AND 7/8" THICK
NICELY CARVED SOUVENIR FOR SERVICE AS PAYMASTER ONBOARD THE USS POMPEY IN 1898 FOR W.A. COLLIER
Collier, William A. Assistant Paymaster (Spanish-American War), 26 July, 1898. Honorably discharged 8 February, 1899.
The ship was built in 1897 by S.P. Austin and Sons, Ltd. of Sunderland, England, as the freighter SS Harlech. She was purchased by the U.S. Navy from James and Charles Harrison of London, England, on 19 April 1898, and commissioned as USS Pompey at Naval Station Norfolk on 26 May 1898. She then served as a collier in Rear Admiral William T. Sampson's squadron off Cuba, returning to Norfolk on 23 August, and was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 18 January 1899.
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NICELY CARVED SOUVENIR FOR SERVICE AS PAYMASTER ONBOARD THE USS POMPEY IN 1898 FOR W.A. COLLIER
Collier, William A. Assistant Paymaster (Spanish-American War), 26 July, 1898. Honorably discharged 8 February, 1899.
The ship was built in 1897 by S.P. Austin and Sons, Ltd. of Sunderland, England, as the freighter SS Harlech. She was purchased by the U.S. Navy from James and Charles Harrison of London, England, on 19 April 1898, and commissioned as USS Pompey at Naval Station Norfolk on 26 May 1898. She then served as a collier in Rear Admiral William T. Sampson's squadron off Cuba, returning to Norfolk on 23 August, and was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 18 January 1899.
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Item # CWB13464
$950.00 USD