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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 59308

"The Navy-Yard at Brooklyn, New York, June, 1861"


Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861, pages 456-457, depicting a large number of Navy ships off the New York Navy Yard, early in the Civil War.
Vessels shown include (from left to right): USS Montgomery; USS Vandalia; USS Brandywine; USS North Carolina; USS Potomac; USS Savannah; USS R.R. Cuyler; USS Mount Vernon; USS Roanoke; USS Resolute and USS Wabash.
A rowing launch is underway in the foreground.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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13 February 2002