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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. 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. 37k Re-assembling the Camanche, circa summer 1864. Photograph from the Collections of The Mariners' Museum. 129k Camanche nearly ready for launching, at San Francisco, California, circa 14 November 1864. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 55198. 2.17k The launching of the Camanche, 14 November 1864. Photo courtesy of "Monitors of the U.S. Navy, 1861-1937", pg 12, by Lt. Richard H. Webber, USNR-R. (LOC) Library of Congress, Catalog Card No. 77-603596 via Darryl L. Baker. 186k Commander C. J. McDougal, USN of the Camanche, her 1st commander. Photo courtesy of Bill Gonyo. 590k This photo is labeled Pensacola, but it is more than likely the Tuscarora.
Note deckhouse on her stern and whale boats are blocking view of area where her main boiler stack would be located. The Tuscarora was in the South Pacific Squadron during this time and likely was at Mare Island. Camanche is aft of the ship. Photo maybe circa 1865. USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker.
Photo i.d. & text courtesy of Robert Jensen. 120k Camanche at San Francisco. Published by Lawrence & Houseworth, 1866. Library of Congress photo # LC-USZ62-27427, courtesy of Robert Hurst.
Camanche1u 1.81k Camanche at a Mare Island buoy circa 1880-90.
However, based on the progress of the construction of the bell tower of St. Vincent Church it should be circa 1867-68. I did find a newspaper article stating that Camanche was at Mare Island in July 1868. The Church was completed and dedicated 28 June 1868. Photo courtesy of NH 44267 via Darryl L. Baker. 129k Camanche moored off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in 1889. The city of Vallejo is in the background. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 68679. Photograph from the William H. Topley Collection. Courtesy of Charles M. Loring, 1969. 74k Passaic class monitor photographed after the Civil War. This may be Camanche, moored off Vallejo, California, circa the 1880s or 1890s. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 44267. 84k Self-Propelled Derrick Barge off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa 1890. The monitor Camanche is in the right background. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 71244. Photograph from the William H. Topley Collection. Courtesy of Charles M. Loring, 1970. 98k Camanche photo taken between 24 September 1892 and 10 October 1892 per Mare Island's Captain of the Yard log. Mare Island's old floating dry dock is to the far right and was gone by 1893. Courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 68512. NR THE STORY
THE MONITOR Camanche AS SHE IS TO-DAY Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside.
Photo courtesy of The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 12 January 1896, Image 16, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. 4.04k THE NAVAL RESERVE MONITOR CAMANCHE
How the Old Monitor Camanche Will Be Manned by the Battalion Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside.
Photo courtesy of The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 24 February 1896, Image 5, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. NR THE MONITOR CAMANCHE, TOWED BY THE GOVERNOR MARKHAM TO SAN FRANCISCO Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside.
Photo courtesy of The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 15 March 1896, Image 7, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. NR Test of the Long-Distance Speaking-Trumpet From the Tug Fearless. It Was Easy to Talk to a Boa a Mile Off and to the British Ship Reliance and Monitor Camanche. Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside.
Photo courtesy of The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 18 March 1896, Image 7, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. NR The Fish Commissioners' Steamer Albatross as She Appeared When the Scow Schooner Sunol Was Approaching Her With a Load of Coal. The Monitor Camanche Is Shown in the Distance. Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside.
Photo courtesy of The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 8 May 1896, Image 7, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. NR The Camanche, Monadnock (BM-3) and Philadelphia (C-4) as They Appeared Lying Abreast of Each Other Yesterday. The Camanche Represents the Old and the Monadnock the New Class of Monitors. Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside.
Photo courtesy of The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 12 July 1896, Image 7, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. 51k Scene Inside the Camanche's Turret Showing the Naval Reserve Drilled at the Two 15-Inch Guns by Lieutenant Beecher of the Monadnock (BM-3) . Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside.
Photo courtesy of The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 12 July 1896, Image 7, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. 3.71k Finish of the Great Annual Race Between the Crews Selected From Divisions 1 and 2 of the Naval Battalion. The Contest Was Stubbornly Fought, but Division 2 Lost Five Lengths on the Turn and Could Not Make It Up.
Races between the Oregon (BB-3) & the monitor Camanche Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside.
Photo courtesy of The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 23 February 1897, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. NR SAN FRANCISCO IS WELL PROTECTED.
It is many a long day since so many warships have been bunched in the bay at one time. Early yesterday morning there could be seen from Folsom-street wharf the old monitor Camanche, the gunboat Bennington, the sloop-of-war Alert, the coast-defense steamers Monterey (BM-6) and Monadnock (BM-3) and the two new gunboats Wheeling and Marietta. Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside.
Photo courtesy of The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 26 May 1897, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. 369k Camanche off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in 1898. USN photo from "U.S.Warships of World War 1", by Paul Silverstone, submitted by Mike Green.
Text from U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 55251. 677k OUR NAVY AS IT IS TODAY
1. Monadnock (BM-3) . 2. Petrel. 3. Puritan (BM-1) . 4. Concord. 5. Wilmington. 6. Amphitrite (BM-2) . 7. Ajax. 8. Machias. 9. Cincinnati. 10. Marblehead. 1 1. Montgomery. 12. Minneapolis. 13. Kearsarge (BB-5). 14. Kentucky (BB-6). 15. Bancroft. 16. Dolphin. 17. Vesuvius. 18. Raleigh. 19. Indiana (BB-1). 20. Iowa (BB-4). 21. Olympia. 22. Terror (M-4). 23. Catskill . 24. Miantonomah (BM-5). 25. Gustine. 26. Yorktown. 27. Texas. 28. Helena. 29. Massachusetts (BB-2). 30. Columbia. 31. New Orleans, 32. San Francisco. 33. Canonicus . 34. Camanche . 35. Monterey (BM-6). 36. Brooklyn. 37. Detroit 38. Atlanta. 39. Alabama (BB-8). 40. Albany. 41. Baltimore. 42. Chicago. 43. Newark, 44. Boston. 45. Charleston. 46. Oregon (BB-3). 47. New York. 48. Manhattan. 49. Philadelphia. 50. Lehigh. And Torpedo Boats. Drawn by "W. A. Verhas. Image and text provided by University of Tennessee.
Photo by The Maryville Times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 28 May 1898, Image 3, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. 575k Monadnock (BM-3) and Camanche aft of her in the Mare Island channel on 20 June 1898. To the far left, just visible, are the earthquake damaged east ends of building 85 and 91. The earthquake hit on 30 March 1898. Photo from the files of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. 70k Monadnock (BM-3) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, prior to her June 1898 departure for the Philippines. The monitor Camanche is partially visible in the right background. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 71766 courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, 1970. 52k Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, CA, June 1898, ready for her voyage to the Philippines. The old monitor Camanche is visible beyond Monadnock's (BM-3) after turret. Courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1970. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. USNHC # NH 70502. 2.69k FROM A UNITED STATES MONITOR TO A COLLIER Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside.
Photo courtesy of The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 20 November 1899, Image 10, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. 75k Albatross (U.S. Fish Commission Steamer, 1882), in San Francisco Bay, California, with a steam launch alongside, February 1902. The old monitor Camanche, which had been sold by the Navy in 1899, is in the right background. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 57139. 1.39k 4 page PDF on Camanche by Jesse N. Bradley from the May 1978 edition of The Retired Officer. PDF courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. 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 December 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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