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Photo # NH 1500: USS Sassacus rams CSS Albemarle, 5 May 1864

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CSS Albemarle (1864-1864) --
Actions and Activities

This page features views of CSS Albemarle's actions and activities.

For additional pictures related to CSS Albemarle, see: CSS Albemarle (1864-1864).


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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Photo #: NH 59161

"The Rebel Ram Attacking Federal Gun-Boats at Plymouth, North Carolina"


Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", May 1864, depicting CSS Albemarle driving off USS Miami, after ramming and sinking USS Southfield (foreground), 19 April 1864.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 1673

"Wood versus Iron"


19th Century photograph of an artwork by Acting Second Engineer Alexander C. Stuart, USN, 1864.
It shows CSS Albemarle engaging several Federal gunboats on Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, on 5 May 1864. USS Sassacus is in left center, ramming the Confederate ironclad. Other U.S. Navy ships seen are (from left): Commodore Hull, Wyalusing and Mattabesett. The Confederate transport Bombshell, captured during the action, is in the right background.
Albemarle was not significantly damaged during this action, which left Sassacus disabled by a hit in one of her boilers.

Collection of Surgeon H.P. Babcock, presented by George R. Babcock, 1938.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 1500

"U.S.S. Sassacus and C.S.S. Albemarle"


19th Century photograph of an artwork, depicting USS Sassacus ramming the Confederate ironclad, during Albemarle's engagement with Federal gunboats on Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, 5 May 1864.
Sassacus was hit in a boiler and disabled during this action. Albemarle was not significantly damaged by the ramming or by gunfire.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 59162

"The Steamship 'Sassacus' Ramming The Rebel Ram 'Albemarle'"


Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 4 June 1864, depicting USS Sassacus ramming CSS Albemarle, during the Confederate ironclad's engagement with U.S. Navy gunboats in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, 5 May 1864.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 116KB; 740 x 470 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 79923

"The Sassacus Ramming The Albemarle"


Artwork by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 58, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907.
It depicts USS Sassacus ramming the Confederate ironclad Albemarle, in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, 5 May 1864.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 79932

"Cushings Daring and Successful Exploit"


Artwork by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 74, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907.
It depicts the attack on CSS Albemarle by a torpedo launch commanded by Lieutenant William B. Cushing, USN, at Plymouth, North Carolina, 27 October 1864.
The torpedo boat is shown crashing over Albemarle's protective log boom to deliver its torpedo against the ironclad's hull.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 57267

CSS Albemarle (1864-1864)


Is torpedoed and sunk by Lieutenant William B. Cushing's torpedo launch, at Plymouth, North Carolina, 27 October 1864.
Phototype published by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa the later 19th Century.

Print from the Skerrett Collection, Bethlehem Steel Company Archives.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 181KB; 740 x 620 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 42220

"Lieut. Cushing's Torpedo Boat sinking the Albemarle on Roanoke River, N.C."


Engraving by A. Stachic, published in "Naval Battles of America", by E. Shippen. It depicts the successful spar torpedo attack by Lieutenant William B. Cushing and his crew on the Confederate ironclad Albemarle, at Plymouth, North Carolina, 27 October 1864.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 58773

CSS Albemarle (1864-1864)


Sunk off Plymouth, North Carolina, circa 1865. She had been sunk on 27-28 October 1864 by a torpedo boat. One section of her armored casemate has been displaced.
Photographed by W.B. Rose for A.J. Smith of New Berne, NC. Taken from the wharf at Plymouth, with the swamp and woods opposite the town in the background.

Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 560 pixels

 

For additional pictures related to CSS Albemarle, see: CSS Albemarle (1864-1864).


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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New image added 21 May 2001