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Photo # NH 57256:  Capt. Raphael Semmes and 1st Lt. John M. Kell on board CSS Alabama at Capetown, Aug. 1863

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Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes, CSN --
Miscellaneous Views

This page features views of Raphael Semmes on board ship and with other people, plus miscellaneous images of him.

For other views of Raphael Semmes, see:

  • Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes, CSN, (1809-1877).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the "Online Library's" digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 42383

    CSS Sumter (1861-1862)


    Ship's officers on deck.
    They are Seated, left to right:
    First Lieutenant William E. Evans;
    Commander Raphael Semmes, Commanding Officer; and
    First Assistant Engineer Miles J. Freeman.
    Standing, left to right:
    Surgeon Francis L. Galt;
    Lieutenant John M. Stribling;
    First Lieutenant John M. Kell, Executive Officer;
    Lieutenant Robert T. Chapman; and
    First Lieutenant Becket K. Howell (Marine Corps).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 134KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57256

    CSS Alabama (1862-1864)


    Captain Raphael Semmes, Alabama's commanding officer, standing by his ship's 110-pounder rifled gun during her visit to Capetown in August 1863. His executive officer, First Lieutenant John M. Kell, is in the background, standing by the ship's wheel.
    The original photograph is lightly color-tinted and mounted on a carte de visite bearing, on its reverse, the mark of E. Burmester, of Cape Town. See photo numbers NH 57256-KN for the colored image and NH 57256-A for a reproduction of the carte de visite's reverse.

    Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN(MC), 1931.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 127KB; 740 x 520 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 44520-KN (Color)

    Confederate Navy Leaders

    Painting by Creative Arts Studio, prepared for use in an official film on Naval history, circa the early 1960s.
    It depicts an imaginary meeting of some of the Confederacy's naval leaders, including (seated, left to right): Captain Franklin Buchanan, Captain Josiah Tattnall, and Commander Matthew F. Maury.
    Shown standing (from left to right) are Captain George N. Hollins, Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes, and Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory.

    Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 350 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57983

    Commander Matthew F. Maury, CSN
    (left), and Captain Raphael Semmes, CSN

    Photograph taken possibly after the end of the Civil War.

    Courtesy of Commander D.M. Wood, 1938.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 138KB; 515 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 1169

    Action between USS Kearsarge and CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864


    Print depicting the Alabama sinking at the close of the battle, with small portraits of the two ships' commanders, John A. Winslow (left) and Raphael Semmes.

    Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 127KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     

    For other views of Raphael Semmes, see:

  • Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes, CSN, (1809-1877).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the "Online Library's" digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 16 July 2000
    New image added 9 June 2001