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From Wiki Jules Henri Poincaré (29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) (French pronunciation: [ˈʒyl ɑ̃ˈʁi pwɛ̃kaˈʁe][1]) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, and a philosopher of science. Poincaré is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as The Last Universalist, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime.

That's nice, but it was established last week, in comments on an identical copy of this image (posted with last week's batch of LOC photos) that this is not Henri, but Raymond Poincare (1860-1934), the President of France, being welcomed on a visit to Spain by King Alfonso XIII. Alfonso had been Poincare's guest in Paris, several months earlier.

sorry I guess I missed that discussion. Should I delete my comment?

The attempt to assassinate the King and Queen was carried out by a Spanish anarchist, Mateo Morral. The bomb allegedly killed 27 people. More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateo_Morral Also, a video of the attack with the dead horse being removed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpwCMWrBnXM

intersting history, www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?153710

It appears that Alfonso XIII of Spain had a lot of ships named after him. This is not a warship and I reckon it is likely one of the two steamships mentioned at books.google.com/books?id=uQY4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1097&... in Commerce Reports of June 21, 1916. The first sank in 1915 in Santander harbor. The second was bought by the Spanish Compania Transatlantica from the Bermuda-Atlantic Steamship Co. of Toronto. It had been built in 1891 and had an extensive refit and alterations and in June 1916 had just passed her trials for use as a mail and passenger steamer.

that is the ship mentioned earlier today in the wrecksite article. For whatever reason it doesn't display now but they had the same refit history

I can't get that link to open for some reason.

This is the Alfonso XIII that used to the Oceana and had been launched in 1890 as the Scot and which would go on to be the Vasco Nunez de Balboa "She had a clipper stem, two funnels, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 16 knots" says www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsS.shtml#scot