U.S.S. Monitor
1861
(Aquarius AQ-S-19)
- Class: Monitor - 1 monitor of 1861
- Displacement: 987 tons
- Dimensions: 179' x 41'6" x 10'6"
- Machinery: 1 screw, 2 Ericsson vibrating-lever engines; IHP 320 = 9 knots
- Armor: 8" turret, 4.5" sides, 2" deck, 9" pilothouse
- Armament: 2-11" Smooth Bore guns
- Complement: 49
- Builder: Continental (Delamater)
- Laid down: 25 Oct 1861
- Launched: 30 Jan 1862
- Commissioned: 25 Feb 1862
- Notes: First ironclad warship built without rigging or sails. One of three experimental ironclads ordered in 1861. Designed by John Ericsson. Spindle-type turret built by Novelty Iron Works on iron hull (126' x 34') with overhanging armored deck. Hurried to completion and towed to Hampton Roads with workmen still aboard.
- Service: Engaged CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads, Va., in first battle between ironclads, 9 Mar 1862. Engaged battery at Sewells Point, 8 May, and at Drewry's Bluff, 15 May. Engagement with CSS Teaser in James River, 4 Jul. Foundered in gale off Cape Hatteras while under tow of USS Rhode Island, 31 Dec 1862.
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