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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 50459

Burning of USS Philadelphia, 16 February 1804


19th Century painting depicting the Philadelphia aflame in Tripoli harbor, after she had been captured and set afire by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur's boarding party.

Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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14 November 2002