Photo #: NH 47017
USS Metacomet (1864-1868)
Line engraving, after a sketch by George Watters, published in
"Harper's Weekly", 10 December 1864, page 789, depicting
a Sunday morning inspection aboard the ship. Crewmen are paraded
with cutlasses beside one of the gunboat's 100-pounder Parrott
rifled guns.
Note hoisting arrangements in the hatch at left, possibly to
supply ammunition to the gun, officers standing at right and
hammocks stowed in the hammock rails.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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