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USS AGAMENTICUS

Info courtesy of hazegray.org.
Miantonomoh Class Monitor: Displacement: 3,400 tons. Dimensions: 258.5 x 53 x 13 feet/78.8 x 16.07 x 3.86 meters. Propulsion: HRCR engines (Agamenticus & Monadnock had Ericsson VL engines), 4 boilers, 2 shafts, 1,400 ihp, 9 knots (design), 6.5 knots actual in some ships. Crew: 150. Armor: Iron: 5 inch sides, 1.5 inch decks, 10 inch turrets. Armament: 2 dual turrets, each with 2x15 inch Dahlgren smoothbore.

Operational and Building Data: Built by Portsmouth Navy Yard. Laid down 1862, launched 19 March 1863, modified with addition of a hurricane deck prior to completion, commissioned 5 May 1864. Saw no combat during the Civil War. Decommissioned to reserve 30 September 1865. Renamed Terror on 15 June 1869. Recommissioned 27 May 1870; decommissioned to reserve 10 June 1872.
Fate: Transferred to William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, PA for scrapping, 1874, as partial payment for a new monitor of the same name.

Size	Image Description	Source
252k	*Agamenticus* as she appeared shortly after her completion in 1865. The *Miantonomoh's* were the only Civil War monitors originally built with hurricane decks, with the possible exception of the Monitor *Dictator*.	Text courtesy of "Monitors of the U.S. Navy, 1861-1937", pg 20, by Lt. Richard H. Webber, USNR-R. (LOC) Library of Congress, Catalog Card No. 77-603596. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 47016.
103k	*Agamenticus* renamed *Terror* before 1869, photographed while laid up at the League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1872-1874. Note the elevated pilothouse fitted atop her forward gun turret. The original print is mounted on a stereographic card.	Courtesy of Paul H. Silverstone, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 92191.
110k	*Agamenticus* renamed *Terror* photograph looking aft from the bow, while she was laid up at the League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1872-1874.Note anchors and anchor davits in the foreground, and the elevated pilothouse fitted atop her forward gun turret. The original print is mounted on a stereographic card.	Courtesy of Paul H. Silverstone, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 92938.
1.22k	PDF on the history of the monitor *Agamenticus* which appeared in the Portsmouth Naval Shipyad publication PERISCOPE, written by Arnold Putnam.	PDF courtesy of Arnold Putnam.
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.

USS AGAMENTICUS History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Not Applicable To This Ship

Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway Battleship Pages By Andrew Toppan.
Monitor National Marine Santuary, NOAA.
Tour the Wreck of the Monitor.

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