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Original – The USS Missouri was one of the first U.S. Navy steam ships. It travelled across the ocean to Gibraltar... at which point an engineer accidentally broke a container of turpentine, it caught alight, and, well...
Reason
A fine, semi-official illustration which recounts the last hours of the ship. Dramatic, and has been stable in the article for five years.
Articles in which this image appears
USS Missouri (1841), John T. Newton, George Pechell Mends, List of shipwrecks in August 1843
FP category for this image
WP:Featured pictures/History/USA History
Creator
Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton's lithograph of Edward Duncan's artwork based on George Pechell Mends' sketch. Restoration by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:The Burning of the USS Missouri in Gibraltar.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 13:02, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]