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A Spanish torpedo was taken out of the harbor of Guatanamo in 1899 by Lieutenant Commander Frank F. Fletcher, U.S. Navy, and presented by him to Oskaloosa, the city of his birth, as a souvenir of the Spanish-American War. It was supposed to be of the same pattern as the one that destroyed the battleship Maine. The torpedo is positioned as when loaded and placed in the water.
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Oskaloosa, Iowa · United States
