USS Santee - A Frigate of the United States Navy
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USS Santee - A Frigate of the United States Navy

USS Santee - designed after the War of 1812, built slowly in the 1820s-1850s, seeing active service at the beginning of the American Civil War, and serving many years as a school ship for the United States Naval Academy, was a beautiful frigate whose history reflects the changing technology of naval ordnance. This website is named in her honor.

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Brookes at the National Civil War Naval Museum
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Brookes at the National Civil War Naval Museum

Placeholder page showing the two Brooke smoothbores and two 7-Inch Brooke Rifles preserved at the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia. Photographs were taken by the author in the late 1990s.

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