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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Kearsarge (1862-1894) --
Views of Ship, 1860s

This page features views showing USS Kearsarge as she was during the 1860s.

For links to additional pictures of Kearsarge and her activities, see:

  • USS Kearsarge (1862-1894) -- Selected Views.

    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 78638

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    Off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, shortly after her return from European waters in 1864.

    Donated by Hamilton Cochran, 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 335 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52023

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken in late 1864, upon the ship's return to the United States from European waters.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 515 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52024

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    Drawing made by Midshipman Edward E. Preble, while at Fayal, Azores, opposited Mount Pico, in 1864, a few months before the battle with CSS Alabama. Preble was Navigating Officer during that action.

    Courtesy of Mrs. J.E. Palmer, from the collection of Surgeon General John Mills Browne, 1937.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 470 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 60639

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    Wash drawing by Clary Ray, December 1894, showing the ship as she was during the Civil War.

    Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 395 pixels

     
    Photo #: KN-571 (Color)

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)

    Watercolor by Clary Ray, circa the 1890s.
    It depicts Kearsarge as she was during the Civil War.

    Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 475 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-KN-571

     
    Photo #: NH 82

    "'Iroquois' and 'Kearsarge' Class"


    Lithograph after a drawing by M.B. Woolsey, USN, published by the Major & Knapp Eng., Mfg & Lith. Co., 71 Broadway, New York, circa the 1860s.
    The ships of these types were: Iroquois, Oneida and Wachusett; Mohican and Kearsarge.

    Courtesy of George H. Stegman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 121KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52026

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    Pen and ink drawing by R.G. Skerrett, circa 1900, depicting the ship as she appeared during the Civil War.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 123KB; 740 x 515 pixels

     

    For links to additional pictures of Kearsarge and her activities, see:

  • USS Kearsarge (1862-1894) -- Selected Views.


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


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    20 July 2000