Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1915 — Old Warship Sold. [ARTICLE]

Old Warship Sold.

The old sloop of war, Portsmouth, which took possession of San Francisco Bay for the U. S. in 1846, and destroyed the Chinese fortifications in Canton in 1856 and later fought with Admiral DeFarragutt, was sold Monday for $3,662.