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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 1334

"Wreck of the 'Otsego,' and the Explosion of the Tug 'Bazely' in the Roanoke River"


Line engraving, published in "Harper's Weekly", 21 January 1865, depicting USS Bazely striking a mine during operations in the Roanoke River, North Carolina, on 9 December 1864 (not 10 December as stated on the original print). The sunken USS Otsego, which had hit another mine shortly before, is in the background.

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8 November 1999