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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 53872
USS Genesee (1862-1867)
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 27 May
1865, page 325.
It depicts the ship protected with anti-torpedo nets, during
operations to clear Mobile Bay, Alabama, of Confederate "torpedoes"
(mines) during the last months of the Civil War.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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