USRC Colfax

Description:

Black and white photograph of the revenue cutter, "Colfax" in the Charleston Harbor during the Spanish-American War. Caption with negative reads, "Revenue Cutter "Colfax" Spanish War View. Printed from a glass plate negative held in the Museum's collection.

USRC Colfax was a 140-foot, 250-ton, side paddlewheel steamer built with a composite hull and commissioned in 1871. During the war she was assigned to the waters of the southeast coast from Baltimore to Savannah.

• Title: USRC Colfax
• Photographer: Sams, Franklin Frost (Dr.), 1867-1937
• Date: 1898

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: Franklin Frost Sams Photographs
• Object Id: MK 7647

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