A lithograph of the Battle of Hampton Roads, the engagement between the USS screen and the CSS Virginia / Merrimack on 8 and 9 March 1862 during the American Civil War. It was the world's first encounter between two steam-powered ironclads in naval history. In the foreground on the left is the flat-bottomed USS screen of the Northern States with its rotating gun turret, on the right is the casemated CSS Virginia of the Southern States. The battle ended in a draw, but heralded the end of wooden warships and the beginning of modern steel-hulled shipping. American history, authentic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th-century original, exact date of the depiction unknown, historical
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A lithograph of the Battle of Hampton Roads, the engagement between the USS screen and the CSS Virginia / Merrimack on 8 and 9 March 1862 during the American Civil War. It was the world's first encounter between two steam-powered ironclads in naval history. In the foreground on the left is the flat-bottomed USS screen of the Northern States with its rotating gun turret, on the right is the casemated CSS Virginia of the Southern States. The battle ended in a draw, but heralded the end of wooden warships and the beginning of modern steel-hulled shipping. American history, authentic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th-century original, exact date of the depiction unknown, historical

Date

Aug 12, 2026

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Photo12/ImageBROKER/Sunny Celeste

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BRK26I09_104

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No

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No

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Royalty free

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83.5Mb (27.8Mb) / 20.3in x 16.0in / 6086 x 4797 (300dpi)

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