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Abandoning the wreck of the U.S.S. Kearsarge on Roncador Reef, February 3rd, 1894 – Historic Print

Abandoning the wreck of the U.S.S. Kearsarge on Roncador Reef, February 3rd, 1894, c1894. — historic photograph
Abandoning the wreck of the U.S.S. Kearsarge on Roncador Reef, February 3rd, 1894, c1894.. Historic photograph from the Battleships collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Abandoning the wreck of the U.S.S. Kearsarge on Roncador Reef, February 3rd, 1894, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Abandoning the wreck of the U.S.S. Kearsarge on Roncador Reef, February 3rd, 1894

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The ship in this picture ran aground on Roncador Reef in the Caribbean in early February 1894, and the Navy abandoned it there. The Kearsarge had earned lasting fame in 1864, when it sank the Confederate raider CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France. This image is a photograph of a drawing by Chris Johnson rather than of the wreck itself, so it shows how the stranded hull was pictured for viewers at the time. The Detroit Publishing Company, known for its late-nineteenth-century views, issued the image under its own catalog number.

Created / publishedc1894.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 11 x 14 in.
Genre1894." Detroit Publishing Co. no. 0660. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
NotesSecond title on negative: Old U.S.S. Kearsarge on Roncador Reef, Feb. 3, 1894. Photograph of a drawing, drawn by Chris Johnson
SubjectsKearsarge (Screw sloop-of-war) Cruisers (Warships)--American. Ship accidents.Caribbean Sea.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 777 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77597

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