This page features views of models and plans of USS Monitor
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Photo #: NH 45976 USS Monitor (1862) Model made by Floyd Houston, probably photographed at the Truxtun-Decatur Naval Museum, Washington, D.C., circa 1964. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 610 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 45977 USS Monitor (1862) Model in 1/8" = 1' scale, made by Alexander Lynch of Los Angeles, California. The photograph was received from Arthur Woodward, Director of History and Anthropology, Los Angeles Museum, 16 September 1939. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 505 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 45975 USS Monitor (1862) Semi-scale model, made by Charles Wesly Crawford and exhibited at the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sanitary Fair during the Civil War to raise money for the wounded and sick from the front. Photograph by Purviance's Photographers, Pittsburgh. Note models in the background, including sailboats, artillery limbers, and a heavy Rodman-type cannon. Courtesy of Captain G.W. Swartz. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 480 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 50954 USS Monitor (1862) General plan published in 1862, showing the ship's inboard profile, plan view below the upper deck and hull cross sections through the engine and boiler spaces. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 153KB; 1200 x 455 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 60660 USS Monitor (1862) Transverse hull section through the turret. Engraving published circa 1862, based on John Ericsson's drawings, and measurements taken from the ship. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 485 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 45978 USS Monitor (1862) and CSS Virginia (1862) Montage drawing featuring plans of the two ships, portraits of men responsible for building and operating them, and scenes of their histories. It is inscribed: "Dedicated to the Memory of Thomas Fitch Rowland, Builder of the Original Monitor.". Drawn by Charles H. Corbett, circa 1907 or later. See Photo # NH 45978 (extended caption) for more extensive information. Courtesy of Charles H. Corbett. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 278KB; 1200 x 825 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 94691 USS Monitor (1862) Engraving of the ship's external general arrangement, with identification of some features. Copied from Frank M. Bennett: "The Steam Navy of the United States", page 280. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 40KB; 740 x 315 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 94690 USS Monitor (1862) Sketch plan of one of the ship's boilers, showing their general arrangement. The drawing is inaccurate in some details. Copied from Frank M. Bennett: "The Steam Navy of the United States", page 281. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 48KB; 740 x 390 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 59393 USS Monitor (1862) Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1862, providing a sketch plan of the ship and her turret, with identification of specific features. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 530 pixels |
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For links to more pictorial coverage of USS Monitor,
see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 19 June 2001