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USS MANHATTAN

Canonicus Class Monitor: Displacement: 1,034 tons. Dimensions: 225 x 43.8 x 13.6 feet. Propulsion: Ericsson VL engines, 2 boilers, 320 hp, 1 shaft, 7 knots. Crew: 85. Armor: Iron: 3-5 inch sides, 1 inch deck, 11 inch turret. Armament: 1 dual turret with 2x15 inch Dahlgren smoothbore.

Operational and Building Data: Manhattan, built by Perine, Secor & Co. at Joseph Coldwell, Jersey City, NJ. Contracted 15 September 1862, launched 14 October 1863, commissioned 6 June 1864. Operated in the Gulf of Mexico, including attacks on Mobile. Decommissioned to reserve August 1865. Renamed Neptune, 15 June 1869, then Manhattan 10 August 1869. Prepared for service at Philadelphia 1872-1873, recommissioned 19 November 1873. Was inactive after June 1877, but actual date of decommissioning is unknown.
Fate: Stricken for disposal 14 December 1901; sold for scrapping 24 March 1902.

Size	Image Description	Source
144k	Rare Brady photograph of *Tecumseh* (left) and *Manhattan* under construction at Jersey City, New Jersey. Note the fine ship-like bow of *Tecumseh* which necessitated the redesign of the anchor and hoisting mechanism.	Photo courtesy of City Museums of Mobile via explorersclub.ca.
74k	Lithograph published during the 1860s, depicting the *Manhattan* at sea.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 60256.
81k	"Battle of Mobile Bay ... Passing Fort Morgan and the Torpedoes". Print after an artwork by J.O. Davidson, 1886, depicting the Union and Confederate squadrons at the moment that *Tecumseh* sank after striking a mine ("torpedo"). Confederate ships (left foreground) are *Morgan, Gaines* and *Tennessee. Union monitors visible astern of Tecumseh* are *Manhattan* and *Winnebago. Brooklyn* is leading the outer line of Union warships, immediately followed by *Hartford*.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 42396. Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.
105k	"Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864". Reproduction of an 1864 pen & ink drawing by George S. Waterman, C.S.N., depicting the action as seen from above and inside the entrance to Mobile Bay. Confederate ships present are (as identified on the drawing): *Selma, Morgan, Gaines* (shown twice, in the battle line, and beached off Fort Morgan after the battle) and Tennessee. Union monitors shown are (from the front of the line): *Tecumseh* (sinking after striking a mine), *Manhattan, Winnebago* and *Chickasaw. The leading two steam sloops in the Union line are Brooklyn* and *Hartford. Small diagram in the lower right represents the various efforts by Union ships to ram the Tennessee* later in the action.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 42392. Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.
277k	"Entrance of Rear Admiral Farragut in to Mobile Bay. 5th August 1864". Chart of the action, prepared by RAdm. D.G. Farragut, Washington, D.C., 1st March 1865. "Explanation of Diagram from the five stand points of the Mobile fight." (printed in the lower left): "No.1. Ships lashed together and running in from Sea, and the monitors running out of "Monitor Bay" to take their station inside or eastward of the line." "No.2. Running up the channel in line of battle, and engaging 'Fort Morgan' leading ship *Brooklyn* encounters what she supposes to be 'torpedoes' monitor '*Tecumseh' is struck by one and sinks; Brooklyn* backs astern causing confusion; Flag Ship takes the lead and passes up and engages the ram *Tennessee* and the gun boats of the enemy." "No.3. Running fight with the enemy's fleet which ends in the capture of one, destruction of another, and the ram and one gun boat take shelter again under Fort Morgan." "No.4. Fleet passes up and are in the act of anchoring when the ram *Tennessee* is seen coming out to attack them". "No.5. Shows the manner the attack was made by the fleet upon the ram by ramming her in succession and keeping up a constant fire upon her at the same time." "The points of contact are shown by the sketch in the north east corner of the plate." "De Kraft's flotilla bombarding Fort Powell." (in upper left of the chart). Ships are (as numbered in "Reference" list at left): 1. *Tecumseh; 2. Manhattan; 3. Winnebago; 4. Chickasaw; 5. Brooklyn; 6. Octorara; 7. Hartford, Flag Ship; 8. Metacomet; 9. Richmond; 10. Port Royal; 11. Lackawanna; 12. Seminole; 13. Admiral's barge Loyal; 14. Monongahela; 15. Kennebec; 16. Ossipee; 17. Itaska; 18. Oneida; 19. Galena*.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 83136. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.
93k	Admiral De Kraft in command of the flotilla assigned to bombard Fort Powell on Mobile Bay. RAdm. D.G. Farragut is the overall commanding officer during the Battle of Mobile Bay.	Digital ID: cwpbh 01093. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Photo courtesy of Bill Gonyo.
109k	Mobile Bay Campaign, August 1864. Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 17 September 1864. Entitled "Admiral Farragut's Fleet Bombarding Fort Morgan, 22 August 1864", it depicts the following U.S. Navy ships (from left to right): *Lackawanna, Manhattan, Octorara, Brooklyn, Winnebago* and *Richmond*. Fort Morgan is shown in the right center distance, and a battery is at the far left.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 59150.
90k	*Manhattan* tied up in port, circa the 1880s. The view looks forward along the ship's port side, with her stern in the foreground.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 74470. Courtesy of Commander Clayton F. Johnston, USN, 1969.
607k	Monitors in ordinary at League Island Navy Yard: *Nahant, Lehigh, Canonicus, Manhattan, Jason* [ex-*Sangamon],Catskill, Montauk, Mahopac* & *Ajax* circa 1890 - 1901, but most likely taken in 1898.	Insert Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo courtesy of The Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 22 April 1898, Image 10, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. Photo LC-D401-21287 courtesy of loc.gov.
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.
288k	*Nahant, Lehigh, Canonicus, Manhattan, Jason* [ex-*Sangamon],Catskill, Montauk* & *Mahopac* lay tied up in rusting retirement, circa 1900.	Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
26k	Undated drawing of the *Manhattan*.	From the Collections of The Mariners' Museum.
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.