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

USS Kearsarge (1862-1894) --
Views on Board

This page features views on board USS Kearsarge.

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 1261

    "Hauling Down the Flag -- Surrender of the Alabama to the Kearsarge off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864"


    Artwork by J.O. Davidson, depicting the sinking of CSS Alabama, as seen from USS Kearsarge. The crew of one of Kearsarge's eleven-inch Dahlgren pivot guns is celebrating their victory.

    Collection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 61669

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    Ship's officers pose on deck, at Cherbourg, France, soon after her 19 June 1864 victory over CSS Alabama.
    Her Commanding Officer, Captain John A. Winslow, is 3rd from left, wearing a uniform of the 1862 pattern. Other officers are generally dressed in uniforms of 1863-64 types.
    View looks aft on the port side. At left is Kearsarge's after XI-inch Dahlgren pivot gun, with its training tracks on the deck alongside.
    Those present are identified in Photo # NH 61669 (complete caption).

    The original glass negative is held by the Library of Congress.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 140KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52027

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    Ship's crew at their battle stations, shortly after her June 1864 action with CSS Alabama. View looks aft from the forecastle, showing both XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore cannon trained to starboard, as they were during the fight.
    Portly officer in the center foreground appears to be Acting Master James R. Wheeler.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 117KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 61670

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    View on deck, looking aft along the starboard side in June 1864. Acting Master James R. Wheeler (left) and Assistant Engineer Sidney L. Smith are standing beside the ship's forward XI-inch pivot gun, which is trained out to starboard, as it was during the action with CSS Alabama on 19 June.
    Note ammunition for the gun on deck at left, including canister (or a powder charge), shell and grape.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 144KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 61671

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    View on deck, looking forward along the starboard side in June 1864. Acting Master Eben M. Stoddard (left) and Chief Engineer William H. Cushman are beside the ship's after XI-inch pivot gun, which is trained out to starboard, as it was during the action with CSS Alabama on 19 June.
    Note ammunition for the gun on deck at left, including grape, shell and what appears to be a powder charge.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 122KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52028

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    Personnel of the Engineer's Department, circa June 1864. The officer at the right is 3rd Assistant Engineer Sidney L. Smith.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 145KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92921

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    Ship's officers pose by her forward XI-inch Dahlgren pivot gun, which is trained to starboard. Taken at Sydney, Australia, circa mid 1869. View looks aft from the forecastle.
    Identified officers include:
    Lieutenant Commander Charles V. Gridley (front, far left);
    Surgeon C.H. Burbank (front, just left of gun muzzle, with full beard); and
    Commander James S. Thornton, Commanding Officer (front, center, with gun trunnion behind him).
    Note telescoping smokestack, boiler room cowls turned to port, spare spars stowed along the port side bulwark, and dog on deck in front of the officers.

    Courtesy of Tom Halpin, 1981.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 141KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52029

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    "The Gun that Sunk the 'Alabama'...". Halftone reproduction of a photograph of Kearsarge's after XI-inch Dahlgren pivot gun, with ship's officers and the quarter deck beyond, circa the 1870s.
    This gun has an iron pivot mounting, of a type adopted after the Civil War, and may or may not be the same weapon that was on board the ship at the time of her battle with CSS Alabama in June 1864.
    Copied from Francis T. Miller's "The Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume VI: The Navies", page 303.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 52025

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    The ship's after XI-inch Dahlgren pivot gun, trained out to port, circa the 1870s. This gun has an iron pivot mounting, of a type adopted after the Civil War. Mounted on the right side of the gun carriage, just behind the gun trunnion, is a plaque bearing the name "Winslow", after Kearsarge's commanding officer in 1864, Captain John A. Winslow.
    The port side ladder to the quarter deck is at the left.

    Courtesy of George H. Stegman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 565 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