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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 59305

USS Galena
(1862-1872)

Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861, page 669, while the ship was under construction at Mystic, Connecticut.
Details of this depiction are inaccurate, especially the elongated gun ports shown fore and aft of the smokestack.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 153KB; 740 x 575 pixels

 

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9 July 2001