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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