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Photo # NH 59293: CSS Florida burns the merchant ship Jacob Bell, Feb. 1863

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This page features views of the Civil War combat actions and prize captures of CSS Florida.

For "ship portrait" views of CSS Florida, see: CSS Florida (1862-1864)

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

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

Photo #: NH 1319

CSS Florida (1862-64)


19th Century photograph of a painting depicting Florida running past the Federal blockader USS Oneida to escape into Mobile Bay, Alabama, 4 September 1862.
On this occasion, Florida also evaded USS Winona and USS Rachael Seaman.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 375 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 1320

CSS Florida (1862-1864)


Overhauling and capturing the merchant ship Jacob Bell in the West Indies, 12 February 1863.
19th Century photograph of an artwork.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 500 pixels

 
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.

Online Image: 174KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 54156

"A Prize Disposed and One Proposed"


19th Century cyanotype photographic print of an oil painting by R.S. Floyd, depicting CSS Florida chasing a merchant sailing ship, after having set another prize afire (in the right distance).
This may depict the events of 10 July 1864, when Florida took four prizes off the Eastern Shore of Maryland: the bark General Berry, which was captured first and burned; the bark (not a ship as shown here) Zelinda, captured second and burned later in the day; the schooner Howard, which was bonded and released with prisoners from previous captures; and the steamer Electric Spark, which was scuttled during the following night.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 635 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 59355

"Cutting out of the Florida from Bahia, Brazil, by the U.S.S. Wachusett"


19th Century phototype print by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia.
It depicts the capture of CSS Florida by USS Wachusett at Bahia, Brazil, on 7 October 1864.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 535 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 80855

United States' Centennial Exhibition, Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876


Photograph by Edward L. Wilson and W. Irving Adams, showing part of the U.S. Navy's exhibit at the exhibition, featuring a U.S. flag; Charles O. Cole's portrait of Dick Libby (see Photo # KN-582); models of drydocks, with a monitor in the one at left; heavy iron bars bent by the Boston Navy Yard's bending mill; and a monument made of wood from ships lost in the Norfolk-Hampton Roads area during the Civil War, including (from top to bottom): CSS Florida, USS Cumberland, USS Merrimack, USS Delaware, USS Columbia, USS Columbus, USS Pennsylvania, USS United States and USS Raritan.

Copied from the book "Photographic Views of the Naval Department of the United States, International Centennial Exhibition of 1876", held by the Navy Department Library in 1974.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 137KB; 660 x 675 pixels

 

For "ship portrait" views of CSS Florida, see: CSS Florida (1862-1864)


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


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Page made 28 September 1999
New image added 5 May 2001