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| Keywords: Battle of Mobile Bay.jpg From U S Navy public domain - Photo NH 42392 Battle of Mobile Bay August 5 1864 Reproduction of an 1864 pen ink drawing by George S Waterman C S N depicting the action as seen from above and inside the entrance to Mobile Bay Confederate ships present are as identified on the drawing Selma Morgan Gaines shown twice in the battle line and beached off Fort Morgan after the battle and Tennessee Union monitors shown are from the front of the line Tecumseh sinking after striking a mine Manhattan Winnebago and Chickasaw The leading two steam sloops in the Union line are Brooklyn and Hartford Small diagram in the lower right represents the various efforts by Union ships to ram the Tennessee later in the action U S Naval Historical Center Photograph http //www history navy mil/photos/sh-us-cs/csa-sh/csash-sz/selma htm Transferred from http //en wikipedia org en wikipedia to Commons by User Undead_warrior using http //tools wikimedia de/~magnus/commonshelper php CommonsHelper PD-USGov-Military-Navy Original upload log en wikipedia Battle_of_Mobile_Bay jpg 2008-01-29 22 07 Wikited 725×484× 169792 bytes <nowiki> PD-USGov-Military-Navy From U S Navy public domain - Photo NH 42392 Battle of Mobile Bay August 5 1864 Reproduction of an 1864 pen ink drawing by George S Waterman C S N depicting the action as seen from above and inside the entrance t</nowiki> ImageNote 1 450 146 55 49 725 484 2 w USS Techumseh sinking after having hit the torpedo She deviated from the clear channel to try and engage the Tennessee ImageNoteEnd 1 ImageNote 2 365 128 80 41 725 484 2 w USS Manhattan ImageNoteEnd 2 ImageNote 3 281 113 81 36 725 484 2 w USS Winnebago ImageNoteEnd 3 ImageNote 4 202 106 76 28 725 484 2 w USS Chickasaw ImageNoteEnd 4 ImageNote 5 10 230 184 69 725 484 2 This is the same Gaines as shown in the battle line; it was beached later in the battle as shown here Its inclusion here is non contemporaneous ImageNoteEnd 5 ImageNote 6 413 201 120 63 725 484 2 w CSS Tennessee ImageNoteEnd 6 ImageNote 7 505 170 74 29 725 484 2 torpedoes Under Farragut's orders some of the torpedoes had been pulled out to allow a channel for his ships to pass through ImageNoteEnd 7 ImageNote 8 309 260 137 82 725 484 2 w CSS Gaines ImageNoteEnd 8 ImageNote 9 231 339 138 86 725 484 2 w CSS Morgan ImageNoteEnd 9 ImageNote 10 88 409 181 68 725 484 2 w CSS Selma ImageNoteEnd 10 ImageNote 11 590 405 85 72 725 484 2 This shows the attempts of the Union ships to ram the Tennessee at the end of the battle The precise ships are uncertain ImageNoteEnd 11 ImageNote 12 14 146 204 77 725 484 2 Fort Morgan ImageNoteEnd 12 ImageNote 13 656 369 66 36 725 484 2 w Fort Gaines ImageNoteEnd 13 ImageNote 14 428 72 95 66 725 484 2 w USS Brooklyn ImageNoteEnd 14 ImageNote 15 365 66 77 63 725 484 2 w USS Hartford ImageNoteEnd 15 Battle of Mobile Bay | ||||
