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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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4 April 2001