Photo #: NH 58709
Loss of USS Weehawken, 6 December 1863
Line engraving, based on a sketch by W.T. Crane, published in
"The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 184,
depicting Weehawken foundering off Charleston, South Carolina.
Dates featured in the original engraving are incorrect.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 58707
Loss of USS Weehawken, 6 December 1863
Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War",
Volume II, page 184, depicting the rescue of Weehawken's
survivors, off Charleston, South Carolina.
The large broadside ironclad in the left middle distance is USS
New Ironsides.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 58708
"The Weehawken's Grave."
Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War",
Volume II, page 184, depicting the smokestack top of the sunken
USS Weehawken, shortly after she foundered off Charleston,
South Carolina, on 6 December 1863.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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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.
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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.
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