Photo #: NH 51794
"'Wyalusing' at Rainbow Bluff, N.C."
"Sinking of the 'Otsego' and blowing up of the 'Bazeley.'"
Phototype by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa
the later 19th Century.
This print depicts the U.S. Navy tug Bazely striking a
mine while going to the assistance of USS Otsego, near
Jamestown, North Carolina, on the Roanoke River, 9 December
1864. Otsego, which had just been sunk by other mines,
is in the left center background. USS Wyalusing is in
the foreground, providing covering fire as boats drag for mines
nearby.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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