Sinking of the ironclad gunboat Monitor in a gale off North Carolina in 1862 crew escaping to the USS Rhode Island. Hand-colored woodcut

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Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Size: 3937px × 2895px
Photo credit: © North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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