Picket boat no. 1 (1864). Engraved reproduction of a wash drawing by r. G. Skerrett, 1900. This craft, armed as a spar-torpedo launch, was used by lieutenant william b. Cushing to sink the confederate ironclad albemarle on the night of 27-28 october 1864. Nhhc photograph collection, nh 63378.
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