Photo #: NH 59293
"Destruction of the Clipper Ship 'Jacob Bell' by the British
Pirate 'Florida.'"
Line engraving from Harper's Weekly, January-June 1863,
page 189. It is signed "G. Perkins" in the lower left.
The merchant ship Jacob Bell was in the West Indies, bound
from Foochow, China, to New York, with a valuable cargo when
she was captured by CSS Florida on 12 February 1863. She
was burned the next day.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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