File:Battle of Mobile Bay.jpg
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English: From U.S. Navy public domain - Photo #: NH 42392. "Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864." Reproduction of an 1864 pen & ink drawing by George S. Waterman, C.S.N., depicting the action as seen from above and inside the entrance to Mobile Bay. Confederate ships present are (as identified on the drawing): Selma, Morgan, Gaines (shown twice, in the battle line, and beached off Fort Morgan after the battle) and Tennessee. Union monitors shown are (from the front of the line): Tecumseh (sinking after striking a mine), Manhattan, Winnebago and Chickasaw. The leading two steam sloops in the Union line are Brooklyn and Hartford. Small diagram in the lower right represents the various efforts by Union ships to ram the Tennessee later in the action. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. |
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http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-us-cs/csa-sh/csash-sz/selma.htm
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Author | George S. Waterman |
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[edit]- 2008-01-29 22:07 Wikited 725×484× (169792 bytes) {{PD-USGov-Military-Navy}} From U.S. Navy public domain - Photo #: NH 42392 "Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864" Reproduction of an 1864 pen & ink drawing by George S. Waterman, C.S.N., depicting the action as seen from above and inside the entrance t
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w:USS Techumseh, sinking after having hit the torpedo. She deviated from the clear channel to try and engage the Tennessee
This is the same Gaines as shown in the battle line; it was beached later in the battle, as shown here. Its inclusion here is non contemporaneous.
"torpedoes". Under Farragut's orders, some of the torpedoes had been pulled out to allow a channel for his ships to pass through.
This shows the attempts of the Union ships to ram the Tennessee at the end of the battle. The precise ships are uncertain.
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