Photo #: NH 45953
USS Monadnock (1864-1874)
Sketch depicting the ship in heavy seas off Point Conception,
California, 19 June 1866, near the end of her voyage from Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, around South America to San Francisco, California.
The steamer in the left distance is probably USS Vanderbilt.
The original sketch was presented to the Naval Historical Foundation
by Vice Admiral William L. Rodgers, 18 May 1938. It came from
the collection of his father.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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