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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 59351

"The Approach of the British Pirate 'Alabama'."


Line engraving after a drawing by Homer, published in "Harper's Weekly", Volume VII, January-June 1863, page 268, depicting an anxious scene aboard a merchant ship as the Confederate cruiser Alabama comes up.
This may represent the capture of the California mail steamer Ariel off Cuba on 7 December 1862, as there were many ladies among the prize ship's passengers.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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31 May 2000