Photo #: NH 59161
"The Rebel Ram Attacking Federal Gun-Boats at Plymouth,
North Carolina"
Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", May 1864,
depicting CSS Albemarle driving off USS Miami,
after ramming and sinking USS Southfield (foreground),
19 April 1864.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 1673
"Wood versus Iron"
19th Century photograph of an artwork by Acting Second Engineer
Alexander C. Stuart, USN, 1864.
It shows CSS Albemarle engaging several Federal gunboats
on Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, on 5 May 1864. USS Sassacus
is in left center, ramming the Confederate ironclad. Other U.S.
Navy ships seen are (from left): Commodore Hull, Wyalusing
and Mattabesett. The Confederate transport Bombshell,
captured during the action, is in the right background.
Albemarle was not significantly damaged during this action,
which left Sassacus disabled by a hit in one of her boilers.
Collection of Surgeon H.P. Babcock, presented by George R. Babcock,
1938.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 1500
"U.S.S. Sassacus and C.S.S. Albemarle"
19th Century photograph of an artwork, depicting USS Sassacus
ramming the Confederate ironclad, during Albemarle's engagement
with Federal gunboats on Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, 5 May
1864.
Sassacus was hit in a boiler and disabled during this
action. Albemarle was not significantly damaged by the
ramming or by gunfire.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59162
"The Steamship 'Sassacus' Ramming The Rebel Ram 'Albemarle'"
Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 4 June 1864,
depicting USS Sassacus ramming CSS Albemarle, during
the Confederate ironclad's engagement with U.S. Navy gunboats
in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, 5 May 1864.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 79923
"The Sassacus Ramming The Albemarle"
Artwork by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume
II, page 58, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907.
It depicts USS Sassacus ramming the Confederate ironclad
Albemarle, in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, 5 May 1864.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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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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Photo #: NH 57267
CSS Albemarle (1864-1864)
Is torpedoed and sunk by Lieutenant William B. Cushing's torpedo
launch, at Plymouth, North Carolina, 27 October 1864.
Phototype published by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
circa the later 19th Century.
Print from the Skerrett Collection, Bethlehem Steel Company Archives.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 42220
"Lieut. Cushing's Torpedo Boat sinking the Albemarle on
Roanoke River, N.C."
Engraving by A. Stachic, published in "Naval Battles of
America", by E. Shippen. It depicts the successful spar
torpedo attack by Lieutenant William B. Cushing and his crew
on the Confederate ironclad Albemarle, at Plymouth, North
Carolina, 27 October 1864.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 58773
CSS Albemarle (1864-1864)
Sunk off Plymouth, North Carolina, circa 1865. She had been sunk
on 27-28 October 1864 by a torpedo boat. One section of her armored
casemate has been displaced.
Photographed by W.B. Rose for A.J. Smith of New Berne, NC. Taken
from the wharf at Plymouth, with the swamp and woods opposite
the town in the background.
Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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