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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 58723

"Destruction of the Rebel Monster 'Merrimac' off Craney Island May 11th 1862"


Lithograph published by Currier & Ives, New York, circa 1862, depicting the explosion of CSS Virginia (ex-USS Merrimack) after she was set afire by her crew to prevent capture.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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9 May 2001