MAKE A MEME View Large Image Federal Ironclad GALENA 1862.png USS Galena- 1862 early ironclad experimental ship whose light armor was judged insufficient Photograph looking forward along the ship's port side shortly after her 15 May 1862 action with Confederate ...
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Keywords: Federal Ironclad GALENA 1862.png USS Galena- 1862 early ironclad experimental ship whose light armor was judged insufficient Photograph looking forward along the ship's port side shortly after her 15 May 1862 action with Confederate batteries at Drewry's Bluff on the James River Virginia Among the items visible are the muzzles of two of Galena's IX-inch Dahlgren smoothbore guns; her unique horizontally-laid interlocking iron side armor; armored gunport shutters; boat davits; members of her crew Visible is a plugged hole from enemy shot near the waterline in bottom left center and a cannon ball embedded further to the right also at waterline LOC-image cwpbh 00826 1862 Gibson James F b 1828 photographer PD-old Dust removal reconstruction of a portion of the ladder negative had flaked cropped sharpenned only a few crew members faces Makthorpe http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cwpbh 00826 Naval artillery USS Galena ship 1862
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