Photo #: NH 79932
"Cushings Daring and Successful Exploit"
Artwork by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume
II, page 74, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907.
It depicts the attack on CSS Albemarle by a torpedo launch
commanded by Lieutenant William B. Cushing, USN, at Plymouth,
North Carolina, 27 October 1864.
The torpedo boat is shown crashing over Albemarle's protective
log boom to deliver its torpedo against the ironclad's hull.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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