Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
901 M STREET SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 74054

Steamship Planter (1860-1876)


Loaded with 1000 bales of cotton, at Georgetown, South Carolina, probably in 1860-61 or 1866-76. She was a side-wheel steamer, built at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860. In Confederate Army service in 1861-62, she was turned over to the Federals by her pilot, Robert Smalls, on 13 May 1862 and served in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army before returning to commercial use in 1866.

Courtesy of E.D. Sloan, Jr., 1971.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 570 pixels

 

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

9 November 1998