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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42907

Action between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon, 1 June 1813


Artwork depicting the two frigates exchanging gunfire early in the battle, which took place off Boston, Massachusetts.
The text below the image is reproduced in Photo # NH 42907 (extended caption).

Courtesy of Mr. Beverly R. Robinson, March 1937.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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4 April 2003