Launch of the U.S.S. Camanche, San Francisco, California, November 14, 1864, artist's impression, zoomable image

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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College

Scan date

07/25/2013

Notes

Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, February 9, 2015.

Depicted ContentIn San Francisco Harbor, the U.S.S. Camanche is finally launched into the waters of the Pacific

Depicted ContentA few days after arriving from New York, the transport ship "Aquila" sinks at its wharf in San Francisco

Image type

engraving

Original caption

Launch of the U.S. Monitor Camanche, at San Francisco, Cal, Nov. 14th - the first ironclad ever launched in the waters of the Pacific. - Sketched by Otto Knirch.

Source citation

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, January 7, 1865, p. 245.