Photo #: NH 42722
U.S. Ship of the Line Pennsylvania (1837-1861)
Photograph taken circa the later 1860s, entitled "Wreck
of the U.S. Line of Battle Ship 'Pennsylvania'."
It depicts salvage operations on the burned and sunken ship,
off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia. Note the burned
ship hull floating in the middle distance, steam salvage engines
and boilers, with their associated barge at right.
Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN(MC), 1931.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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