DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 58751
USS Keokuk (1863-1863)
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863,
depicting her as she sank off Charleston, South Carolina, on
8 April 1863, the morning after she received heavy damage from
Confederate guns during the Union ironclads' attack on Fort Sumter.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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