Unidentified artist
1853
View of the U. S. Line of Battle Ship, Franklin and the Floating Dock. Basin and Railways at the Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine. Copied from a daguerreotype January 27th, 1853

Engraving
8 3/4 x 7 1/2 ins
 
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Period American's Weekly Sale of History (# 64), January 14, 2019, 4:00 PM EST, Lot 22
 
The fourth USS Franklin was a United States Navy screw frigate. The ship was laid down at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, in 1854, and built in part of materials salvaged from the previous USS Franklin. For a time housed over, she was launched on 17 September 1864, commissioned on 3 June 1867 at Boston, Massachusetts, and on 28 June 1867 sailed from New York City as flagship of Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, who assumed command of the European Squadron. Relieved by USS Ticonderoga, she arrived back in New York on 10 November 1868.
 
Michael Lehr owns the daguerreotype on which this illustration was based. (13 January 2019)
 
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