File:Sailing Steamer Oriental.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(3,742 × 2,221 pixels, file size: 1.18 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Description
English: Sailing Steamer Oriental built in Philadelphia in 1861. Used as a Federal transport ship in the Civil War. She met her fate a year after being launche in May of 1862 when she was shipwrecked off Bodie Island, 33 miles north of Cape Hatteras. Her passengers and crew were saved. The town of Oriental, NC was renamed after this sailing steamer
Date
Source Oriental, NC museum who got it from Peabody Essex Museum of Salem, MA who stated it was public domain.
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

Licensing

[edit]
Public domain
Public domain
This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1929, and if not then due to lack of notice or renewal. See this page for further explanation.

United States
United States
This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current17:11, 21 August 2013Thumbnail for version as of 17:11, 21 August 20133,742 × 2,221 (1.18 MB)CliftonBencke (talk | contribs)User created page with UploadWizard

There are no pages that use this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file: