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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. 107k "Panoramic View of Charleston Harbor. -- Advance of Ironclads to the Attack, 7 April, 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 # NH 59269.
nantucket1e 648k Ironclads in Action
Sketch of Charleston Harbor, showing placement of US Navy Ironclads during the attack in April 1863 (from top to bottom):
Keokuk,
Weehawken,
Passaic,
Montauk,
Patapsco,
Catskill,
Nantucket &
Nahant. Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
patapsco2 68k Mines courtesy of jamesvachowski.com Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp. 74k Line engraving published in Harper's Weekly/i>, January-June 1863, page 196, depicting the bombardment of Fort McAllister by the U.S. Navy monitors Passaic, Patapsco and Nahant. The engraving is based on a sketch by "an eye-witness" on board Montauk, which is in the right center foreground. In the left foreground, firing on the fort, are the mortar schooners C.P. Williams, Norfolk Packet and Para. Among other U.S. Navy ships involved were gunboats Wissahickon, Seneca and Dawn and tug Dandelion. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 59288. 109k Line engraving, after a sketch by W.T. Crane, published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 39. It depicts the U.S. Navy monitors Passaic, Patapsco and Nahant firing on Fort McAllister (at far left) from the Ogeechee River. Other U.S. Navy ships are in the foreground. Montauk is the monitor in this group (farthest from the artist). Firing on the fort from the right foreground are mortar schooners, including C.P. Williams, Norfolk Packet and Para. Among other U.S. Navy ships involved were gunboats Wissahickon, Seneca and Dawn and tug Dandelion, all screw steamers. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 59287. 489k 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 via Robert Hurst. 52k Pencil sketch by an unidentified artist, depicting the ship engaging Confederate batteries on Sullivans Island, Charleston, South Carolina, during the Civil War. A note on the artwork states that Patapsco had a red top to her smokestack. Collections of the Library of Congress. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 95087. 24k Charleston Harbor - Magnetometer Grid and Contours of Ironclad Patapsco. Photo courtesy of National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA)numa.net. 45k Charleston Harbor - Side-Scan Image of Ironclad Patapsco. Photo courtesy of National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) numa.net.
patapsco1g 283k Wrecks of the Patapsco & Weehawken. Photo courtesy of artsandsciences.sc.edu via Tommy Trampp. 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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