Photo #: NH 58906-KN (Color)
"Awful Explosion of the 'Peace-Maker' on board the U.S.
Steam Frigate Princeton, on Wednesday, 28th Feby. 1844"
Colored lithograph, published by N. Currier, New York, 1844.
It depicts the explosion of a heavy gun on board USS Princeton,
in the Potomac River, which killed or mortally wounded seven
and injured about twenty people. Some of those present are identified
below the image, including (from left): Mr. Wilkins; Mr. Perrine;
Lieutenant Hunt; Representative Virgil Maxcy, of Maryland; Secretary
of State Abel P. Upshur; Captain Beverly Kennon, Chief of the
Bureau of Construction, Equipment and Repair; Thomas Gilmer,
Secretary of the Navy; Captain Robert F. Stockton; Sailors; Senator
Phelps and Senator Thomas Hart Benton. Maxcy, Upshur, Kennon
and Gilmer were among those killed. Stockton and Benton were
among the injured.
Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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