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THE SINKING OF THE "MERRIMAC." 1899. 20x14 inches. Brett Litho Co., New York. Condition B+: repaired tears and tape stains in margins; scotch tape on verso; horizontal fold; minor tear in image. Paper. An explosive blue, orange, yellow and green image of the Navy collier Merrimac being scuttled in the narrow passageway into Santiago harbor. One of the most memorable and highly publicized events from the Spanish American War, the unsuccessful plan to sink the Merrimac and block the Spanish Armada from exiting the port captured the imagination of the entire country and made heros of all the men involved. Richmond Hobson, in charge of the plan, published a book shortly after the event in 1898. Later that year the story was serialized in The Century magazine, and was run over the course of four months, from December, 1898, through March, 1899.
