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Photo # NH 58871:  Engraving of USS Naugatuck, published in 1862

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USS Naugatuck (1862)

USS Naugatuck, a 192-ton twin screw steamer built at New York City in 1844, was converted to a gunboat early in the Civil War by Edwin A. Stevens to demonstrate the merits of his ongoing "Stevens Battery" project. Turned over to the Treasury Department and taken into the Revenue Cutter Service, she was loaned to the Navy in the spring of 1862.

Naugatuck played an active role in operations in the vicinity of Hampton Roads, Virginia, both to counter local Confederate Navy forces and to support the Union Army's Peninsular Campaign. She engaged enemy ships and shore batteries on a number of occasions. During the 15 May 1862 battle at Drewry's Bluff, on the James River, her single large rifled gun blew up, effectively disarming her, and Naugatuck was returned to the Revenue Cutter Service shortly afterwards. She continued in use as the USRC E.A. Stevens until sold in 1890 and was afterwards the merchant vessel Argus.

This page features and provides links to all the views we have related to USS Naugatuck (1862).

For views of Naugatuck in action, see:

  • USS Naugatuck (1862) -- Actions and Activities.


    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 58871

    USS Naugatuck
    (1862)

    Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", circa spring 1862, when the gunboat was operating in the Hampton Roads area, Virginia.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 300 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58872

    USS Naugatuck
    (1862)

    Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 26 April 1862, providing a general arrangement diagram of the gunboat's interior.
    Note the extensive provisions for ballasting the ship with water to reduce her freeboard in action.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 42KB; 740 x 190 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45657

    USS Naugatuck
    (1862)

    19th Century photograph of a contempory model, showing the gunboat's twin screws, single large gun and other features.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45658

    USS Naugatuck
    (1862)

    19th Century photograph of a contempory model, with the deck removed to show the mounting for her single large gun (which appears to be similar to a Parrott-type rifle).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45659

    USS Naugatuck
    (1862)

    19th Century photograph of a contempory model, with the deck removed to show the mounting for her single large gun.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 595 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

     


    In the following view, USS Naugatuck is only partially visible, in the center, beyond the monitor in the foreground:

    Photo #: NH 464-KN (Color)

    Civil War Ironclads at Sea

    Chromolithograph by Armstrong & Company, after an 1893 watercolor by Fred S. Cozzens, published in "Our Navy -- Its Growth and Achievements", 1897.
    Ships depicted are (from left to right):
    Monadnock class twin-turret monitor;
    Passaic class single-turret monitor (in foreground);
    USS Naugatuck;
    USS Keokuk
    USS New Ironsides and
    USS Nantucket.

    Collection of Captain Glenn Howell, USN, 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     

    For views of Naugatuck in action, see:

  • USS Naugatuck (1862) -- Actions and Activities.


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


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