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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96016

Navy Memorial Museum, Building 76, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.


View in the Civil War exhibit area, March 1980, showing the sternpost of USS Kearsarge with an unexploded shell from CSS Alabama embedded in it, a relic of the 19 June 1864 battle between those two ships.
Other artificts visible include the Historical Data Plaque of USS Cushing (DD-797), immediately to the right of the Kearsarge sternpost.
Photographed by PH3c F. Brownson.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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7 June 2000