Historic Naval Engagements

Illustrations of significant naval battles featuring warships, cannons, and smoke, portraying wartime energy and historical maritime conflicts.

The fight between the Alabama and the Kearsarge, 1864. American Civil War - sea battle off Cherbourg on 19th June, from a sketch by Robert Lancaster, the owner of the yacht Deerhound, '...which was present during the whole of the battle, and which was happily instrumental in saving the lives of Captain Semmes, thirteen officers, and twenty-six men of the Alabama a confederate ship originally called No. 290,...when they had leaped into the water as their ship went down. Captain Winslow of the Kearsarge wrote:..."The Kearsarge...steered immediately for the Alabama for close action. The
The fight between the Alabama and the Kearsarge, 1864. American Civil War - sea battle off Cherbourg on 19th June, from a sketch by Robert Lancaster, the owner of the yacht Deerhound, '...which was present during the whole of the battle, and which was happily instrumental in saving the lives of Captain Semmes, thirteen officers, and twenty-six men of the Alabama a confederate ship originally called No. 290,...when they had leaped into the water as their ship went down. Captain Winslow of the Kearsarge wrote:..."The Kearsarge...steered immediately for the Alabama for close action. The