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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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12 October 1999