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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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.

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5 April 2001