U.S.S. Terror, on speed trial – Historic Reproduction
![U.S.S. Terror, on speed trial, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f0/f0fe6490c15a-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures U.S.S. Terror, on speed trial in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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U.S.S. Terror, on speed trial
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The image shows the U.S.S. Terror during a speed trial, the timed run a warship made to measure its top speed under power. Terror was a turret ship, a monitor-type vessel with its guns housed in a rotating turret set low in the hull, a design the U.S. Navy favored for coastal defense in the late 1800s. Detroit Publishing Company photographers worked widely in the 1890s and early 1900s, recording American ships, cities, and landscapes on glass plate negatives. A speed trial like this one would have been a notable event for a naval crew, since performance on the measured course was a key test of a ship's engines and hull.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). X 11" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020106. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Terror (Monitor) Turret ships--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 796 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63414 |
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