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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 1071

"A perspective View of the loss of the U.S. Frigate Philadelphia in which is represented her relative position to the Tripolitan Gun-boats when during their furious attack upon her she was unable to get a single gun to bear upon them"


Contemporary engraving after a drawing by Charles Denoon.

Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 117KB; 740 x 510 pixels

 

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21 November 2002