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Photo # NH 60273:  USS New Ironsides.  Artwork by R.G. Skerrett

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS New Ironsides (1862-1866) -- Without Sailing Rig


This page features all our views of USS New Ironsides as she generally appeared while in action, without her sailing rig.

For additional pictures of USS New Ironsides, see:

  • USS New Ironsides (1862-1866).

    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 60273

    USS New Ironsides (1862-1866)


    Wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett, circa 1900, showing the ship as ready for action, with masts and yards struck down.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 60616

    USS New Ironsides (1862-1866)


    19th Century photograph of a watercolor sketch, depicting the ship off Charleston, South Carolina, in 1863, with her sides showing the effects of several engagements with Confederate artillery.
    The original photographic print is inscribed "With Compliments of W.S. Wells (Late) U.S. Navy".

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 440 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 60274

    USS New Ironsides (1862-1866)


    Cyanotype reproduction of a 19th Century artwork, depicting the ship off the Philadelphia Navy Yard during the Civil War era.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 119KB; 740 x 390 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58743

    USS New Ironsides (1862-1866)


    Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 182, depicting the ship as she appeared during most of her operational career, without sailing rig.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 183KB; 740 x 630 pixels

     


    The following views of USS New Ironsides are inaccurate in several respects:

    Photo #: NH 58742

    USS New Ironsides (1862-1866)


    Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the ship "in fighting trim", with her masts and yards removed.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 113KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58752

    U.S. Navy Warships, 1862


    Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting several contemporary U.S. Navy ironclad and conventional warships. They are (from left to right: Puritan (in the original twin-turret design); Catskill; Montauk, Keokuk (citing her original name, "Woodna"); Passaic; Galena (behind Roanoke, with name not cited); Roanoke; Winona; New Ironsides; Naugatuck; Brooklyn and Monitor.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 250 pixels

     

    For additional pictures of USS New Ironsides, see:

  • USS New Ironsides (1862-1866).


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


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    Page made 31 August 2001