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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 58781

USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864


Section of Kearsarge's sternpost, with a shell imbedded in it that had been fired by the Alabama during the battle. This rifle shell is about seven inches in diameter and weighs about 56 pounds.
Photograph was taken circa 1960, by which time the sternpost section had been encased in an expanded metal protective covering. By 1972, it was on exhibit at the U.S. Navy Memorial Museum, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.

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7 June 2000