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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 1279

Loss of USS Monitor, 30-31 December 1862


Halftone reproduction of a Civil War era print, copied from the "U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings", December 1926.
USS Rhode Island is standing by in the background, as a boat removes crewmen from the sinking Monitor.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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4 April 2001