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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 58758
"The Wreck of the Iron-clad 'Monitor.'"
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863,
depicting USS Monitor sinking in a storm off Cape Hatteras
on the night of 30-31 December 1862. A boat is taking off crewmen,
and USS Rhode Island is in the background.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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