Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
P0012_0020 |
Collection |
Ray Brighton Photographs |
Title |
USS Kearsarge |
Date |
circa 1886 |
Year Range from |
1850 |
Year Range to |
1900 |
Description |
View of the USS Kearsarge (1861) believed to be at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine. Undated. In both 1878 and 1886, the Kearsarge was decommissioned at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, which can provide an approximation of the date. The image comes from "They Came To Fish" by Ray Brighton, first published in 1973 and revised in 1979 and 1994. In the 1979 edition, the caption was as follows: "One of the stupidest mistakes in the original volumes identified the USS Portsmouth as the USS Kearsarge. Shown here is the Kearsarge, the vessel that ended the career of the Confederate sea raider Alabama. Kearsarge was built at Portsmouth Navy Yard. She was lost on Roncador Reef." |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Print size |
10" x 8" |
Search Terms |
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Piscataqua River Kearsarge (U.S.S.) Kittery (Me.) |
Subjects |
United States Navy Sloops Naval yards & naval stations Ships Civil War, 1861-1865 Kittery (Me.) |
Related Publications |
"They Came To Fish" by Ray Brighton, published in 1973, revised in 1979 and 1994, opposite p. 123. |