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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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117k | Sangamon photographed on 27 May 1898, probably at the New York Navy Yard, after she had been recommissioned for coastal defense service during the Spanish-American War | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 44266. | |
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102k | Ship's officers on the deck of a Passaic class monitor, circa 1864-65. This ship has been identified in one published source as Sangamon and in another as Patapsco. Note anchor chain on deck, ventilators erected over deck fittings, thin white band painted around the turret top, uneven height of the turret gunports, and Dahlgren howitzer on a field carriage. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 51953. | |
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120k | Federal ironclads in Trent's Reach, James River, Virginia photographed circa early 1865. Nearest ship is Saugus, with a mine sweeping "torpedo rake" attached to her bow. Next monitor astern is probably Sangamon. Visible just to the right of her is either Mahopac or Canonicus. Last two ships are Atlanta and Onondaga. Photographed by the Matthew Brady organization. Note the log boom across the river in the foreground and the signal tower atop the hill in the right distance. | Photograph from the Collections of the U.S. National Archives. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 111-B-80. | |
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91k | Federal ironclads in the James River, Virginia photographed circa early 1865, probably in Trent's Reach. Ships are (from left to right): Saugus, Sangamon (probably), Atlanta and Onondaga. Photographed by the Matthew Brady organization. | Photograph from the Collections of the U.S. National Archives. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 111-B-1961. | |
 | 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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