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

USS Kearsarge --
-- Miscellaneous Activities, 1862-1894

This page features views of USS Kearsarge's actions & activities, other than her fight with CSS Alabama.

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 59410

    "The Sumter, Kearsarge and Tuscarora at Gibraltar"


    Artwork published in "Service Afloat: or, the Remarkable Career of the Confederate Cruisers Sumter and Alabama ...", by Admiral Raphael Semmes, CSN, 1887.
    It depicts the U.S. warships Tuscarora and Kearsarge keeping watch on the Confederate cruiser Sumter, on 12 April 1862.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 61193

    "U.S. Naval Review at Hampton-Roads, Va."


    Lithograph after a drawing by Joseph L. Jones, circa 1877-1880, dedicated to Secretary of the Navy Richard W. Thompson.
    Ships present include (from left): Marion, Tallapoosa (flying the Secretary of the Navy's Flag), Constitution, Kearsarge, Saratoga, Powhatan, Portsmouth and Minnesota.

    Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 545 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52030

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    Watercolor by an unidentified artist, depicting Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, in the Caribbean Sea, on 2 February 1894.

    Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 525 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