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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 55305
"Destruction of the United States Gun-boat 'Commodore Jones'
on the James"
Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 28 May 1864,
page 348, depicting USS Commodore Jones being blown up
by a very powerful Confederate electrically detonated mine ("torpedo")
on 6 May 1864, while she was operating on the James River, Virginia.
Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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