Photo #: NH 75531
USS Spuyten Duyvil (1864-1880)
Heavily retouched photograph, circa 1864, mounted on a mat containing
four sketches and the following inscriptions: (at bottom) "U.S.
Iron-clad Torpedo Boat 'Spuyten Duyvil' Designed by Chf. Engr.
Wm. W.W. Wood U.S.N. Genl. Inspector &c. for the Navy";
and (at top) "Constructed for the Navy Department 1864.".
The sketches include (at top) two kinds of explosive shells for
the ship's spar torpedoes; and (at bottom) the explosions of
torpedo warheads during tests in May 1864.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Gift of Mrs. Wilmina
deB. McGuire, 11 September 1944.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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