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All four hulls intersect the bay at consistent waterlines and cast broken reflections directly below their visible forms. Susquehanna’s anchor cable exits the bow hawsehole, stays taut under load and enters the water ahead of the hull. Masts, yards, furled canvas and rigging remain physically connected to their respective hulls. Both smoke plumes originate at steamer funnels and lean camera-right together. The four ships remain staggered in depth, with clear water gaps separating every hull. Susquehanna is about 78 m long, Mississippi about 70 m, and each sailing sloop about 45 m; the sloops appear roughly three-fifths the steamers’ length. It is 1853: Deck crews remain too distant for faces or garments to resolve.; Dark painted wooden hulls, iron steam machinery, hemp rigging, timber spars and furled canvas.; Two side-wheel steam warships and two three-masted sailing sloops using period anchors, rigging and auxiliary steam propulsion. 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