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Photo # NH 50954:  General plan of USS Monitor, 1862

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USS Monitor (1862-1862) --
Models and plans


This page features views of models and plans of USS Monitor

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 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

     
    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

     
    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

     
    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

     
    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

     
    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

     
    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

     
    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

     
    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

     

    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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