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	87k	Andrew Hull Foote, born 12 September 1806 at New Haven, Conn., entered the Navy 4 December 1822 as a midshipman. Commanding Portsmouth in the East India Squadron on 20 and 21 November 1856, Foote led a landing party which seized the barrier forts at Canton, China, in reprisal for attacks on American ships. From 30 August 1861 to 9 May 1862, Foote commanded the Naval Forces on Western Rivers with distinction, organizing and leading the gunboat flotilla in the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson and Island No. 10. Wounded in action at Fort Donelson, Foote was commissioned Rear Admiral 16 July 1862, and was on his way to take command of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron when he died at New York 26 June 1863.		NHC
	214k	Undated, drawing of the torpedo boat USS Foote patrolling her station. Original source unknown. Image scanned from U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman.		Robert Hurst
	30k	A starboard side line drawing by A.D. Baker III of USS Foote (Torpedo Boat # 3) as she appeared in 1896. The cigar-shaped objects abaft mast were folding boats. Spare torpedo carried in cylinder abaft fwd. stack. Drawing shows all awning stanchions rigged. Image scanned from U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman.		Robert Hurst
	167k	USS Foote (TB-3) (TB-3) being launched at the Columbian Iron Works and Dry Dock Co., Baltimore, Maryland, on October 1 1896.		Mike Green
	107k	Photo #: NH 64065. USS Foote (TB-3) photographed circa 1896-97. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		NHC
	174k	Foote (TB # 3), Ericsson (TB # 2), Morris (TB # 14) Cushing (TB # 1) and Porter (TB # 6) (or Dupont TB # 7) at Norfolk Navy Yard, circa early 1900s. Period postcard. Image and text from Building The Mosquito Fleet: The U.S. Navy's First Torpedo Boats, by Richard V. Simpson.		Robert Hurst
	249k	USS Foote (TB-3) in dry dock sometime between 1897 and 1901. Source: Library of Congress, Photo No. LC-D4-20402.		Bill Gonyo/Mike Green
	142k	Port quarter view of the USS Foote (TB-3) underway ca. 1897-1901 at an unknown location. USS New York (ACR-) is in the right background. Library of Congress, LC-D4-20342.		Mike Green
	72k	Photo #: NH 74093. Cira 1897, location unknown.		Terry Miller, Executive Director, Tin Can Sailors Inc.
	174k	USS Foote (TB-3), November 1900. Source: United States National Archives, Photo No. 19-N-14-27-7.		Mike Green
	107k	Stern view of USS Foote (TB-3), November 1900. Source: United States National Archives, Photo No. 19-N-14-27-8.		Mike Green
	238k	USS Foote (TB-3) in dry dock at the Boston Navy Yard, 10 January 1901. Source: United States National Archives, Photo No. 19-N-14-27-16.		Mike Green

LT William Ledyard Rodgers    Aug 7 1897 - ? (Later ADM)

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