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'The Last Broadside of the Varuna', 1862, (1872). On 24th April 1862, the USS 'Varuna', a screw gunboat in the United States Navy, was rammed by the Confederate ships Governor Moore and Stonewall Jackson. She continued firing until she sank. Engraving from John Gilmary Shea's A Child's History of the United States, Hess and McDavitt, (New York, 1872).