USS DALE BURNS A WORTHLESS PRIZE


William H. Meyers. Watercolor. 1847.
Naval Sketches of the War in California. Limited Edition 1,000. Grabhorn Press. San Francisco. 1939.

Burning of a worthless prize (captured vessel), the Madelina, in the Gulf of California near the island of Tortugas. The USS Libertad appears left, and the USS Dale, right. 3 October 1847.

From the collection of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.