Photo #: NH 61926
USS Pawnee (1860-1884)
View on deck, looking forward from near the mizzen mast, while
the ship was stationed in Charleston harbor, South Carolina,
circa 1864-1865.
Guns visible include an Army Model 1841 eight-inch siege howitzer
(left foreground) and the ship's starboard battery of nine-inch
Dahlgren shell guns.
Note Sailors on deck and on watch (with telescope) on the bridge,
gratings atop hatches, coiled lines, and mechanism for hoisting
and lowering the smokestack.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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