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Photo # NH 58705:  Interior of USS Montauk's gun turret

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USS Montauk (1862-1904) --
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This page features all our views representing scenes on board USS Montauk.

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  • USS Montauk (1862-1904).


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    Photo #: NH 58705

    USS Montauk (1862-1904)


    Line engraving, after a sketch by W.T. Crane, published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 188. It depicts the interior of the monitor's gun turret, probably at about the time she was completed in December 1862.
    Guns are both Dahlgren smoothbores: a XV-inch at right and an XI-inch at left.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 176KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58700

    USS Montauk (1862-1904)


    Line engraving, after a sketch by W.T. Crane, published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 187. It depicts a scene the compartment below the monitor's gun turret, probably at about the time the ship was completed in December 1862.
    Note crewman reading a newspaper, at right.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 169KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58701

    USS Montauk (1862-1904)


    Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 186. It depicts scenes on board the monitor, probably at about the time she was completed in December 1862.
    The views include the Commanding Officer's cabin, arrangements for manually rotating the gun turret, and the anchor well on the foredeck.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 208KB; 650 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58703

    USS Montauk (1862-1904)


    Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 187. It depicts scenes on board the monitor, probably at about the time she was completed in December 1862.
    The views include a view in the officers' ward room, with negro messmen at work, and several vignettes of ordnance equipment.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 153KB; 635 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58704

    USS Montauk (1862-1904)


    Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 186. It depicts a scene on the monitor's berth deck, probably at about the time she was completed in December 1862.
    Note mess table at left, crewmen resting and reading a newspaper, and ladder leading topside.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 162KB; 740 x 545 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58702

    USS Montauk (1862-1904)


    Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, pages 186-87. It depicts scenes on board the monitor, probably at about the time she was completed in December 1862.
    The views include: interior of the armored pilothouse,with vignettes showing the inside and outside appearance of the pilothouse viewing ports; turret port for the ship's XV-inch Dahlgren gun; entrance to the shell room; a crewman reading a newspaper near the windlass; signal flags hoisted above the pilothouse; and the flagstaff at the ship's stern.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 160KB; 630 x 675 pixels

     

    For additional views related to USS Montauk, see:,

  • USS Montauk (1862-1904).


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