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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 63881

Steamship Mississippi
(1862-1883)

Watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1951, painted for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume I.
Originally the blockade runner Memphis, built in England in 1862, she was USS Memphis in 1862-1869. After sale by the Navy she became the commercial steamer Mississippi and was destroyed by fire in 1883.

Courtesy of Erik Heyl.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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14 January 2003