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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