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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42906

Engagement between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon, 1 June 1813


Print painted, engraved and published by W. Elmes, London, August 1813.
It depicts the capture of Chesapeake off Boston, Massachusetts, after a sharp engagement and boarding by Shannon's crew. Boston light house is shown in the left background.

Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, Maryland. Beverly R. Robinson Collection, March 1937.

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9 May 2003