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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 1995

Engagement between U.S. Frigate Chesapeake and His Britannic Majesty's Frigate Shannon, off Boston, Massachusetts, 1 June 1813


Oil painting in the collection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936, depicting the two ships exchanging broadsides early in the action.
Note the "A Free Trade - Sailors Rights" flag flown from Chesapeake's forepeak.

Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 113KB; 690 x 605 pixels

 

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9 May 2003