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HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #143
Historians often track the same ship through various names. The USS Benicia that served in the Pacific after 1869 was originally launched at Portsmouth Yard as the Algoma a year earlier. The Benicia transported King David Kalakaua of Hawaii (the man who popularized the hula dance) to San Francisco in 1874.
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From HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH
Early Photographs from the Collections of Strawbery Banke
by James L. Garvin & Susan Grigg, Peter Randall Publisher
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