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Photo # NH 58709:  USS Weehawken sinking, 6 December 1863

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

USS Weehawken (1863-1863) --
Loss of Ship, 6 December 1863


This page features all the views we have related to the loss of USS Weehawken.

For additional views of USS Weehawken, see:,

  • USS Weehawken (1863-1863).


    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 58709

    Loss of USS Weehawken, 6 December 1863


    Line engraving, based on a sketch by W.T. Crane, published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 184, depicting Weehawken foundering off Charleston, South Carolina.
    Dates featured in the original engraving are incorrect.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 145KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58707

    Loss of USS Weehawken, 6 December 1863


    Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 184, depicting the rescue of Weehawken's survivors, off Charleston, South Carolina.
    The large broadside ironclad in the left middle distance is USS New Ironsides.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 106KB; 740 x 410 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58708

    "The Weehawken's Grave."


    Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 184, depicting the smokestack top of the sunken USS Weehawken, shortly after she foundered off Charleston, South Carolina, on 6 December 1863.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 300 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42916

    Charleston Campaign, 1863-65


    Photostat reproduction of a chart, redrawn from the "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion", entitled "Approaches to Charleston, S.C.". It shows the positions of the wrecks of U.S. Navy ships Weehawken, Keokuk, Patapsco and Housatonic, as well as the location where USS New Ironsides spent two hours over a "torpedo" on 7 April 1863.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 147KB; 680 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42917

    Charleston Campaign, 1863-65


    Photostat reproduction of a chart of the approaches to Charleston, South Carolina, detailing the locations of the wrecks of U.S. Navy ships Weehawken, Keokuk, Patapsco and Housatonic; the wreck of CSS Georgiana; where USS New Ironsides, Bibb and USS Massachusetts encountered Confederate "torpedoes" on 7 April 1863, 16 March 1865 and 19 March 1865; and the location of other "torpedoes".

    Copied from the "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion".

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 166KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     

    For additional views of USS Weehawken, see:,

  • USS Weehawken (1863-1863).


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


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