. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE OUTLYING NAVY-YARD- Tlicse scenes show the iictivities thatsprang up around Hilton Head aftertlie success of the Port Royal ex-pedition. The picture above is ofthe foundry shop erected by theFederals. Here hundreds of me-chanics were kept constantly em-I)loyed, repairing the iron workneeded aboard the gunboats anddoing work for which the ships other-wise would have had to go central picture shows the an-chor rack, where were kept all sizesof anchors from the small ones usedfor mooring buoys to those of thelargest ship
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE OUTLYING NAVY-YARD- Tlicse scenes show the iictivities thatsprang up around Hilton Head aftertlie success of the Port Royal ex-pedition. The picture above is ofthe foundry shop erected by theFederals. Here hundreds of me-chanics were kept constantly em-I)loyed, repairing the iron workneeded aboard the gunboats anddoing work for which the ships other-wise would have had to go central picture shows the an-chor rack, where were kept all sizesof anchors from the small ones usedfor mooring buoys to those of thelargest ships. In the early part ofthe war hundreds of anchors were -HILTON HEAD, 1862. THE ANCHOR RACK lost to the navy by ships slippingtheir moorings to stand off-shore inbad weather. Later the employ-ment of long heavy deep-sea cablesobviated this necessity, enablingships to ride out gales. Not a singlevessel of the regular navy founderedor was wrecked during the wholewar. One of the first things done bythe Federal authorities after gaininga foothold at Hilton Head was toreplace all buoys and lights. In thelower picture one of the monitors isconvoying the new lightship that wassent down from the North to replacethe one removed, at the outbreakof hostilities, by the Confederates.
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