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Photo # NH 73688:  Crewmen on board USS Monitor, July 1862

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Monitor (1862-1862) --
Views On Board -- Photographs


This page features photographs taken on board USS Monitor in 1862.

For engravings of views on board this ship, see:

  • USS Monitor (1862) -- Views On Board -- Engravings.

    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 73688

    USS Monitor (1862-62)


    Crewmembers cooking on deck, in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862. Photographed by James F. Gibson.
    This view looks forward from the port quarter, with the port side blower hatch in the foreground, the two smokestacks in the middle distance and the turret beyond. The sailor standing atop the turret is holding a telescope.
    Note cookstove supported on bricks at left and awning above the turret.

    Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 625 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 574

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Crewmen relaxing on deck, while the ship was in the James River, Virginia, on 9 July 1862. View looks forward on the starboard side, with the gun turret beyond.
    Note men playing checkers at right. Another man is reading a newspaper by the starboard smokestack.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 112KB; 700 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 577

    USS Monitor (1862)


    View on deck looking forward on the starboard side, while the ship was in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862. The turret, with the muzzle of one of Monitor's two XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore guns visible, is at left, with the armored pilothouse beyond. Note dents in turret armor (far left) from hits by Confederate heavy guns.
    Officers standing at right are Second Assistant Engineer Albert B. Campbell (with arms folded) and Acting Volunteer Lieutenant William Flye (with binoculars).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 95KB; 690 x 660 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 61923

    USS Monitor (1862)


    View on deck looking forward on the starboard side, while the ship was in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862. The turret, with the muzzle of one of Monitor's two XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore guns showing, is at left. Note dents in turret armor from hits by Confederate heavy guns and crewmembers atop the turret.
    Officers at right are (left to right): Third Assistant Engineer Robinson W. Hands, Acting Master Louis N. Stodder, Second Assistant Engineer Albert B. Campbell (seated) and Acting Volunteer Lieutenant William Flye (with binoculars).
    This photograph forms a stereograph pair with Photo # NH 2780.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 2780

    USS Monitor (1862)


    View on deck looking forward on the starboard side, while the ship was in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862. The turret, with the muzzle of one of Monitor's two XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore guns showing, is at left. Note crewmembers atop the turret and awning rigged on stanchions overhead.
    Officers at right are (left to right): Third Assistant Engineer Robinson W. Hands, Acting Master Louis N. Stodder, Second Assistant Engineer Albert B. Campbell (seated) and Acting Volunteer Lieutenant William Flye (with binoculars).
    This photograph forms a stereograph pair with Photo # NH 61923.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 690 x 630 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 575

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Officers on deck by her armored gun turret, while the ship was in the James River, Virginia, on 9 July 1862.
    They are identified in Photo # NH 575 (complete caption).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 118KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 61931

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Officers on deck, posed by her armored gun turret, while the ship was in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862.
    They are identified in Photo # NH 61931 (complete caption).

    Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 138KB; 690 x 625 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 576

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Officers on deck, by her gun turret, while the ship was in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862.
    They are identified in Photo # NH 576 (complete caption).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 122KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 48887

    Lieutenant William N. Jeffers, USN


    Seated beside the gun turret of USS Monitor, circa July 1862.
    Note turret armor rivets.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 119KB; 690 x 610 pixels

     

    For engravings of views on board this ship, see:

  • USS Monitor (1862) -- Views On Board -- Engravings.

    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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