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  • Caption text: "Photo # NH 61676 Artwork of CSS Virginia"
Background notes: CSS Virginia
Deutsch: Der erste Entwurf der Südstaaten für ein gepanzertes Kriegsschiff war die CSS Virginia. Nach der Eroberung Norfolks und der Marinewerft Gosport hatten die Konföderierten die dort selbstversenkte US-Fregatte Merrimack gehoben.
English: CSS Virginia also known as the Merrimack was an ironclad warship of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War (built using the remains of the scuttled USS Merrimack). Participant in the Battle of Hampton Roads in March, 1862 opposite the USS Monitor- the first battle between two powered ironclad warships


CSS Virginia

Ironclads / American Civil War ships / 1860s ships / Norfolk Navy Yard

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English: CSS Virginia
Español: CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimac)
Français : On distingue l'éperon à l'avant
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Photograph of a 19th Century artwork.
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Believe the author of this may have been a Frearson, or Frearson Brothers of Norseman, Dundas, Western Australia who had the first newspaper there. Also had newspaper in King Street, Adelaide where other family operated doing maps. Some brothers moved to Norseman 1890's and settled there some 18 years. Septimus Frearson was a Councillor of the Shire of Dundas at the time of proposed recession with newspaper articles related to visit by Premier John Forrest.
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current12:34, 5 March 2007740×406 (79 KB)Raymond (cropped text)
08:47, 26 April 2005740×425 (76 KB)Wames (Photo #: NH 61676 CSS Virginia (1862-1862) Photograph of a 19th Century artwork. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-us-cs/csa-sh/csash-sz/virginia.htm Category:American Civil War ships {{PD-USGov-Milita)
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