Photo #: NH 46955
USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864
19th Century photograph of a painting by Alfred C. Howland (1838-1909),
depicting spectators watching the battle from a church yard at
Cherbourg, France.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 1931
Grave of Seaman James King, CSN
In the U.S. Navy section of a cemetary at Cherbourg, France.
Photographed circa the early 1900s.
James King, 2nd, described in Lieutenant Arthur Sinclair's "Two
Years on the Alabama" as "a splendid specimen of an
Irishman" had joined the crew of CSS Alabama at Singapore
in December 1863. Mortally wounded in the battle with USS Kearsarge
off Cherbourg on 19 June 1864, he died after being taken to that
ship following the action.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 58781
USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864
Section of Kearsarge's sternpost, with a shell imbedded
in it that had been fired by the Alabama during the battle.
This rifle shell is about seven inches in diameter and weighs
about 56 pounds.
Photograph was taken circa 1960, by which time the sternpost
section had been encased in an expanded metal protective covering.
By 1972, it was on exhibit at the U.S. Navy Memorial Museum,
Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 96016
Navy Memorial Museum, Building 76, Washington Navy Yard, Washington,
D.C.
View in the Civil War exhibit area, March 1980, showing the sternpost
of USS Kearsarge with an unexploded shell from CSS Alabama
embedded in it, a relic of the 19 June 1864 battle between those
two ships.
Other artificts visible include the Historical Data Plaque of
USS Cushing (DD-797), immediately to the right of the
Kearsarge sternpost.
Photographed by PH3c F. Brownson.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 60958
"The Gun that settled the dispute"
An Eleven-inch Dahlgren smoothbore gun in an artillery park,
probably at the New York Navy Yard, sometime after the Civil
War. Photograph published by E.H. Hart, 1162 Broadway, New York,
circa the later 1880s.
This gun is presumably one of the two XI" Dahlgrens carried
by USS Kearsarge during her battle with CSS Alabama
off Cherbourg, France, on 19 June 1864.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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