Photo #: NH 73688
USS Monitor (1862-62)
Crewmembers cooking on deck, in the James River, Virginia, 9
July 1862. Photographed by James F. Gibson.
This view looks forward from the port quarter, with the port
side blower hatch in the foreground, the two smokestacks in the
middle distance and the turret beyond. The sailor standing atop
the turret is holding a telescope.
Note cookstove supported on bricks at left and awning above the
turret.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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