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Christmas Day Attack!

December 25, 2022December 17, 2022navalistCharleston, Marblehead, Meade, StonoLeave a comment

                        25 DECEMBER 1863                      CHRISTMAS DAY ATTACK! Our first warship named MARBLEHEAD was one of 23 Unadilla-class wooden gunboats built in the first year of the Civil War.  Looking outwardly like a two-masted sailing brig, a single stack amidships revealed her steam Read More

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