Photo #: NH 58859
USS Monitor (1862)
Line engraving, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862,
depicting the ship "Ready for Action" after her pilothouse
was modified with angled armor plating around its sides.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 54255
USS Monitor (1862)
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December
1861, page 806, entitled "The Ericsson Steel-clad Battery
now Building at Green Point, Long Island".
Note the extraordinary inaccuracies in this depiction.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 54257
USS Monitor (1862)
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December
1861, page 806, entitled "The Ericsson Steel-clad Battery
now Building at Green Point, Long Island. ... Deck plan".
Note the serious inaccuracies in this representation.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 54256
USS Monitor (1862)
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December
1861, page 806, entitled "The Ericsson Steel-clad Battery
now Building at Green Point, Long Island. ... Section of Side".
This depiction is quite inaccurate.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 65702
CSS Virginia (ex-USS Merrimack) and
USS Monitor (1862)
Line engraving, published in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated
Newspaper", circa 1862.
Its depiction of Virginia (labeled "Merrimac")
is quite inaccurate, with grossly oversized broadside gunports.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 58752
U.S. Navy Warships, 1862
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862,
depicting several contemporary U.S. Navy ironclad and conventional
warships. They are (from left to right: Puritan (in the
original twin-turret design); Catskill; Montauk,
Keokuk (citing her original name, "Woodna");
Passaic; Galena (behind Roanoke, with name
not cited); Roanoke; Winona; New Ironsides;
Naugatuck; Brooklyn and Monitor.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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