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Photo #: NH 63378
Picket Boat No. 1 (1864)
Engraved reproduction of a wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett, 1900.
This craft, armed as a spar-torpedo launch, was used by Lieutenant
William B. Cushing to sink the Confederate ironclad Albemarle
on the night of 27-28 October 1864.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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