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CSS Teaser in combat with USS Maratanza, July 4, 1862. 12-pounder on the bow Deck detail 6.4-inch banded rifle, the stern pivot mount on the CSS Teaser. These guns were made by banding and rifling the 32-pounder smoothbore. This image is from the Library of Congress.
Carte de visite image of the ship. Immediately following her capture and repair, Tennessee was commissioned in the United States Navy, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Pierre Giraud in command. The ironclad participated in the Federal assault on Fort Morgan on August 23 which resulted in the fort's capitulation that same day.
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The CSS Tacony, commanded by Lt. Charles W. Read, captured the Archer on June 25, 1863 off the coast of Portland, Maine. Knowing that the Union was on a hunt for his ship, he transferred the crew and armaments to it and destroyed the Tacony. Read decided to try to capture the revenue cutter Caleb Cushing on his way down the coast of New England.
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CSS Tacony was originally a bark captured by the Confederate cruiser CSS Clarence during the American Civil War and converted into a Confederate cruiser for commerce raiding. The CSS Clarence , commanded by Lt. Charles W. Read , captured the Tacony on June 12, 1863, and since it was a better ship suited for commerce raiding , the crew and ...
Admittedly, cropping a tiny bit out of a large image with any sort of CSS image crop is very inefficient: It still has to load a thumbnail big enough to crop that tiny bit from. In this case, it's loading a 400px wide image for the first, smaller example of the isolated water droplet, and a 900px wide image for the second.