Photo #: NH 79913
"The Monitor's Tragic End"
Artwork published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page
39, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907.
It depicts USS Monitor sinking off Cape Hatteras during
the night of 30-31 December 1862, as a boat approaches to rescue
some of her crewmen. USS Rhode Island is in the left distance,
firing a rocket.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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