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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 50454-KN (color)
"Destruction of Whale Ships off Cape Thaddeus Arctic
Ocean June 23 1865 by the Conft Stmr Shenandoah"
Colored lithograph of an artwork by B. Russell, depicting CSS
Shenandoah's assault on the U.S. whale ships in the Bering
Sea area.
Individual items shown are (from left to right): brig Susan
Abigail (burning); ship Euphrates (burning--distant);
CSS Shenandoah; ship Jerah Swift (burning--distant);
ship William Thompson (burning--distant); ship Sophia
Thornton (burning); whaleboat going to warn other whalers
(very distant); ship Milo which carried the destroyed
vessels' crews to San Francisco; ice in the distance.
Collection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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20 February 2002