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Photo # NH 58751:  USS Keokuk sinking, 8 April 1863

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USS Keokuk (1863-1863) -- Activities and Relics


This page features all the views we have related to USS Keokuk's activities and relics.

For more pictures of USS Keokuk, see:

  • USS Keokuk (1863-1863).

    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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    Photo #: NH 59269

    "Panoramic View of Charleston Harbor. -- Advance of Ironclads to the Attack, April 7th, 1863"


    Line engraving published in "The Soldier in our Civil War", Volume II, page 172, with a key to individual ships and land features shown.
    U.S. Navy ships present are (from left to center): Keokuk, Nahant, Nantucket, Catskill, New Ironsides, Patapsco, Montauk, Passaic and Weehawken.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 107KB; 900 x 350 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 59298

    "Charleston Harbor, Looking towards the City"


    Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1863, pages 264-65, depicting the Federal fleet off the harbor mouth at the time of the ironclads' attack on Fort Sumter, 7 April 1863.
    U.S. Navy ships specifically identified include New Ironsides (second from left in the ironclad formation) and Keokuk (ironclad furthest to the right).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 120KB; 900 x 355 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58751

    USS Keokuk
    (1863-1863)

    Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863, depicting her as she sank off Charleston, South Carolina, on 8 April 1863, the morning after she received heavy damage from Confederate guns during the Union ironclads' attack on Fort Sumter.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 171KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42916

    Charleston Campaign, 1863-65


    Photostat reproduction of a chart, redrawn from the "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion", entitled "Approaches to Charleston, S.C.". It shows the positions of the wrecks of U.S. Navy ships Weehawken, Keokuk, Patapsco and Housatonic, as well as the location where USS New Ironsides spent two hours over a "torpedo" on 7 April 1863.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 147KB; 680 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42917

    Charleston Campaign, 1863-65


    Photostat reproduction of a chart of the approaches to Charleston, South Carolina, detailing the locations of the wrecks of U.S. Navy ships Weehawken, Keokuk, Patapsco and Housatonic; the wreck of CSS Georgiana; where USS New Ironsides, Bibb and USS Massachusetts encountered Confederate "torpedoes" on 7 April 1863, 16 March 1865 and 19 March 1865; and the location of other "torpedoes".

    Copied from the "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion".

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 166KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 1978

    XI-inch Dahlgren smooth-bore gun


    Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken at Charleston, South Carolina, during the late 19th Century or early 20th Century. The gun is mounted on an iron seacoast artillery carriage.
    This gun was salvaged from the USS Keokuk after she sank as a result of battle damage received during the 7 April 1863 ironclad attack on Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor. It was subsequently employed by the Confederates.
    Copied from the book "The Battery, Charleston, S.C."

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 135KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     

    For additional pictures of USS Keokuk, see:

  • USS Keokuk (1863-1863).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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