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USS MONADNOCK

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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 smooth-bore.

Operational and Building Data: Built by Boston Navy Yard. Laid down 1862, launched 23 March 1863, commissioned 4 October 1864. Participated in the assault on Fort Fisher and in operations on the James River. Sent to the Pacific under tow; departed Philadelphia 5 October 1865 and arrived at San Francisco 21 June 1866. Decommissioned to reserve 30 June 1866.
Fate: Transferred to Continental Iron Works, Vallejo, CA for scrapping, 1874-75, as partial payment for a new monitor of the same name.

Click On Image For Full Size	Size	Image Description	Source
	67k	Lithograph of the *Monadnock* published in 1864 by Endicott & Company, New York.	Courtesy of Commander Charles Moran, 1935. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 60657.
	62k	Ships of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron departing Hampton Roads, Virginia, en route to attack Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in December 1864. The ships present are (from left to right): A twin-turret monitor, probably *Monadnock; New Ironsides* and a steam sloop of war.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 1557-A.
	82k	Capture of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 15 January 1865. Watercolor by eyewitness Ensign John W. Grattan, of Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter's staff, depicting Porter's fleet bombarding the fort prior to the ground assault. Side-wheel steamer in the right foreground is Porter's flagship, *Malvern. New Ironsides* and *Monadnock* are in the right distance.	Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Grattan Collection. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 50468-KN.
	81k	Lithograph by Endicott & Company, New York, circa 1865, entitled "Monitor Iron-Clads and the New Ironsides, Forming part of the Fleet of Rear Admiral D.D. Porter, U.S.N. riding out a Gale of Wind, at Anchor off Fort Fisher, Coast of North Carolina, December 21, 1864." The print is dedicated by the publisher to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus V. Fox. Monitors in the foreground and middle distance are (from left to right) *Monadnock* (twin-turret), *Canonicus, Mahopac* and *Saugus. Ships in the distance (from left to left-center) are: Brooklyn, New Ironsides, Juniata, Tacony* and *Malvern*.	Collection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 1936. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 42241.
	69k	19th-Century painting, by an unidentified artist, depicting U.S. Navy ironclads bombarding Fort Fisher during one of the two assaults that ended in its capture. Twin-turret monitor in the center foreground is *Monadnock. Large broadside ironclad beyond is New Ironsides. The three single-turret monitors are Canonicus, Mahopac* and *Saugus*.	Presented by Albert Rosenthal, January 1935. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 42240.
	165k	Engine of the *Monadnock*.	Photograph courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
	869k	*Monadnock* Turret Engines, 1864	National Archives Identifier:55302722 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
	578k	*Monadnock* Armored Smoke Stack, 1864	National Archives Identifier:55302724 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
	752k	*Monadnock* towing the *Mohican* off Cape Hatteras on 29 April 1865.	Photograph from The Illustrated London News, Volume 46, # 1312, pg. 406, courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
	431k	Wood-cut engraving entitled "THE UNITED STATES IRON-CLAD BATTERY MONADNOCK", published in Harper's Weekly* February 1865.*	Photograph courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
	69k	*Monadnock* and *Napa. Engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War",* Volume II, page 226.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 58791.
	121k	*New Ironsides* (left) and *Monadnock* (right foreground) engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 3 February 1866 as part of a larger print entitled The Iron-clad Navy of the United States.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 61431.
monadnock1t	1.43k	*Monadnock* is seen here at Rio de Janeiro Harbor Brazil when the Emperor Don Pedro paid a visit.	Courtesy of Harper's Weekly via Tommy Trampp.
	86k	Lieut. Commander Francis Marvin Bunce was assigned as commanding officer of the monitor *Monadnock* on 5 September 1865. He departed Philadelphia on 5 October 1865 for a trip around South America to San Francisco, California escorted by three ships (*Vanderbilt, Tuscarora, and Powhatan) on the first extended sea voyage ever made by a monitor. The Monadnock* arrived at San Francisco 21 June 1866. For his service on this assignment he was recommended by Commodore John Rogers to the Navy Department a reward was in order. The Secretary of the Navy forwarded the recommendation to the President of the United States for his approval.	Photo from the book "Register of the Military Order of the Foreign Wars of the United States (1902)", courtesy of Bill Gonyo.
	80k	Photographic reproduction of a sketch depicting the *Monadnock* off Callao, Peru, in 1866, during her voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, around South America to San Francisco, California. The original print is mounted on a carte de visite, produced by Wm. Shew, 421 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, Calif.	Donation of Hamilton Cochran, 1973. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 78635.
	83k	Sketch depicting the *Monadnock* in heavy seas off Point Conception, California, 19 June 1866, near the end of her voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, around South America to San Francisco, California. The steamer in the left distance is probably *Vanderbilt*. The original sketch was presented to the Naval Historical Foundation by Vice Admiral William L. Rodgers, 18 May 1938. It came from the collection of his father.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 45953.
	682k	*Monadnock* circa 1866 in the Mare Island channel.	USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker.
	51k	1874 Hand-colored Print of the *Monadnock*.	Photo courtesy of St. Croix Antiquarian Booksellers.
	1.05k	Civil War Ironclads at Sea. Chromolithograph by Armstrong & Company, after an 1893 watercolor by Fred S. Cozzens, published in Our Navy Its Growth and Achievements, 1897. Ships depicted are (from left to right): *Monadnock* class twin-turret monitor; *Passaic* class single-turret monitor (in foreground); *Naugatuck; Keokuk; New Ironsides* and *Nantucket*.	Photo # NH 464-KN, Collection of Captain Glenn Howell, USN, 1974. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph from the National Museum of the U.S. Navy via flickr.com.
	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.