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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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24 October 2003