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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 58707

Loss of USS Weehawken, 6 December 1863


Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 184, depicting the rescue of Weehawken's survivors, off Charleston, South Carolina.
The large broadside ironclad in the left middle distance is USS New Ironsides.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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29 August 2001