File:USS Clifton Fire Raft.jpg

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English: "Fire-raft Sent Down by the Rebels, April 17". Engraving of USS Clifton playing a fire hose on a Confederate fire raft as it drifted past Union ships on the lower Mississippi River, 17 April 1862
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Photo #: NH 59065 Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862 U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/clifton.htm
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