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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42641

U.S. Brig Porpoise
(1836-1854)

Sparks, Captain of the Maintop.
Sketch by Captain's Clerk Charles F. Sands, reproduced from his journal kept on board Porpoise during her anti-slavery cruise off Africa, 1848.

Courtesy of Mr. W.F. Sands, 1939.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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18 September 2003