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39k | Plan of turret for Passaic class monitors. The port stoppers can be seen clearly in this drawing. | Photo courtesy of "Monitors of the U.S. Navy, 1861-1937", pg 11, by Lt. Richard H. Webber, USNR-R. (LOC) Library of Congress, Catalog Card No. 77-603596. | |
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61k | Propeller and rudder arrangement of the Passaic class. | Photo courtesy of "Monitors of the U.S. Navy, 1861-1937", pg 13, by Lt. Richard H. Webber, USNR-R. (LOC) Library of Congress, Catalog Card No. 77-603596. | |
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119k | Line engraving of the Montauk after a sketch by W.T. Crane, published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 188. It depicts the interior of the Montauk's gun turret, probably at about the time she was completed in December 1862. Guns are both Dahlgren smoothbores: a XV-inch at right and an XI-inch at left. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 58705. | |
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115k | Line engraving of the Montauk after a sketch by W.T. Crane, published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 187. It depicts a scene the compartment below the Montauk's gun turret, probably at about the time the ship was completed in December 1862. Note crewman reading a newspaper, at right. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 58700. | |
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140k | Line engraving of the Montauk published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 186. It depicts scenes on board the monitor, probably at about the time she was completed in December 1862. The views include the Commanding Officer's cabin, arrangements for manually rotating the Montauk's turret, and the anchor well on the foredeck. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 58701. | |
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105k | Line engraving of the Montauk published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 187. It depicts scenes on board the monitor, probably at about the time she was completed in December 1862. The views include a view in the officers' ward room, with negro messmen at work, and several vignettes of ordnance equipment. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 58703. | |
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110k | Line engraving of the Montauk published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 186. It depicts a scene on the monitor's berth deck, probably at about the time she was completed in December 1862. Note mess table at left, crewmen resting and reading a newspaper, and ladder leading topside. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 58704. | |
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111k | Line engraving of the Montauk published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 186-87. It depicts scenes on board the monitor, probably at about the time she was completed in December 1862. The views include: interior of the armored pilothouse,with vignettes showing the inside and outside appearance of the pilothouse viewing ports; turret port for the ship's XV-inch Dahlgren gun; entrance to the shell room; a crewman reading a newspaper near the windlass; signal flags hoisted above the pilothouse; and the flagstaff at the ship's stern. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 58702. | |
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111k | "The Iron-clad Montauk engaging the Rebel Fort McAllister, in the Ogeechee River, 28th January 1863. -- Sketched by an Officer of the 'Dawn.'". Line engraving, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863, depicting Montauk in the foreground, firing on the fort. At left, also bombarding, are the U.S. ships Seneca, Wissahickon, Dawn and C.P. Williams. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 58899. | |
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125k | Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1863, page 193, showing the monitor Montauk shelling the Confederate Privateer Rattlesnake (ex-CSS Nashville) in the Ogeechee River, Georgia, 28 February 1863. Fort McAllister is in the right-center distance. | Photo courtesy of sonofthesouth.net. Text courtesy of USNHC. | |
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115k | Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 41, showing Rattlesnake burning after being shelled by the monitor Montauk, commanded by Captain John L. Worden, USN, in the Ogeechee River, Georgia on 28 February 1863. Fort McAllister is in the right-center background, and the U.S. Navy gunboats Seneca, Wissahickon, Dawn are providing supporting fire in the left distance. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 59286. | |
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88k | Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863. It depicts the Montauk detonating a mine in the Ogeechee River, Georgia, in the morning of 28 February 1863, as she was withdrawing after destroying the Confederate ship Rattlesnake. Montauk was damaged by this explosion and had to be run aground until repairs could be made. | Photo courtesy of sonofthesouth.net. Text courtesy of USNHC. | |
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107k | "Panoramic View of Charleston Harbor. -- Advance of Ironclads to the Attack, April 7th, 1863" Line engraving published in "The Soldier in our Civil War", Volume II, page 172, with a key to individual ships and land features shown. U.S. Navy ships present are (from left to center): Keokuk, Nahant, Nantucket, Catskill, New Ironsides, Patapsco, Montauk, Passaic and Weehawken. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. USNHC # NH 59269. | |
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61k | Monitors engage Confederate batteries on Sullivan's Island, Charleston, South Carolina. Photographed from one of the Confederate emplacements, the ships are identified as (from left to right): Weehawken, Montauk and Passaic. The monitor on the right appears to be firing its guns. Date is given as 8 September 1863, when other U.S. Navy ships were providing cover for Weehawken, which had gone aground on the previous day. She was refloated on the 8th after receiving heavy gunfire from the Confederate fortifications. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. USNHC # NH 51964. | |
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Ships moored in the Anacostia River off the Washington Navy Yard, D.C.
waterfront, after the end of the Civil War, about 1865.
The large twin-turret monitor in the center is Miantonomoh, with the smaller monitor Montauk
tied up alongside her, to the left. In the left distance are the "light draft" monitor Chimo
and the twin-turret monitor Tonawanda. The former Confederate ironclad Stonewall
is beyond them.
In the right distance is the Yard's western shiphouse. Ship at right is probably Resaca. The original print is mounted on a carte de visite produced by Christimo, 45 Rua de Quitanda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
Courtesy of Mrs. W.E. Taylor, 1941, from the collection of Medical Inspector William E. Taylor, USN. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 58936. | |
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89k | Four monitors laid up in the Anacostia River, off the Washington Navy Yard, circa 1866. Ships are (from left to right): Mahopac, Saugus, Montauk (probably); and either Casco or Chimo. Photo mounted on a stereograph card, marked: "Photographed and published by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, N.H.". | Courtesy of Paul H. Silverstone, 1982. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 93868. | |
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84k | Miantonomoh moored off the Washington Navy Yard, D.C., in 1865-66. Montauk is tied up alongside, to the left. The Navy Yard's western shiphouse is visible in the right background. Photo mounted on a stereograph card. | Courtesy of the Steamship Historical Society of America, 1952. Collection of Rosmar S. Devereaux. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 86239. | |
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128k | "Post-mortem Examination of Booth's Body on board the Monitor Montauk." Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 13 May 1865, depicting the scene on board Montauk, off the Washington Navy Yard, D.C., on 27 April 1865, as Union officers examined the body of John Wilkes Booth. Booth had assassinated President Abraham Lincoln of 14 April 1865. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 51959. | |
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77k | Montauk at left, and Lehigh at right,laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, circa late 1902 or early 1903. The ships present, at extreme left and in center beyond Montauk and Lehigh, include three other old monitors and two new destroyers (probably Bainbridge (DD-01) and Chauncey (DD-03), both in reserve at Philadelphia from November 1902 to February 1903). | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 45896. | |
 | 376k | A guest studies a painting depicting the history of battleships. The artwork was painted by George Skybeck and presented to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association during their annual banquet at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 8 Dec 1991. | USN photo # DN-SC-92-05391, by PHC Carolyn Harris, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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