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Photo # NH 58859:  USS Monitor.  Rather inaccurate engraving from Harper's Weekly, 1862

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Monitor (1862-1862) --
Overall Views of the Ship (Part II)

As with her opponent, CSS Virginia, some contemporary pictures of USS Monitor are noteworthy more for their creativity than for their accuracy. This page features those views we have that fall into this category. All are relatively inaccurate, and some are grossly so.

For additional overall (and relatively accurate) views of this ship, see:

  • USS Monitor (1862) -- Overall Views of the Ship.

    For links to more pictorial coverage of USS Monitor, see:

  • USS Monitor (1862-1862) -- Selected Views.

    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    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.

    Online Image: 121KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 290 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 320 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 138KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 250 pixels

     

    For additional overall (and relatively accurate) views of this ship, see:

  • USS Monitor (1862) -- Overall Views of the Ship.

    For links to more pictorial coverage of USS Monitor, see:

  • USS Monitor (1862-1862) -- Selected Views.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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