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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
Puritan (launched 1864)
Puritan, a 4912-ton seagoing monitor, was under construction
at Greenpoint, New York, between 1863 and 1865. Originally intended
to have two gun turrets, her designer, John
Ericsson, recast her arrangement to feature only one turret.
Puritan was launched in July 1864 but remained incomplete
when work was stopped in 1865. Her hull was apparently broken
up in about 1874 when construction began on another monitor Puritan, which was officially listed as
the old ship "rebuilt".
This page features all the views we have related to the
monitor Puritan, which was launched in 1864.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 42278
Monitor Puritan (launched 1864)
Line engraving by Harley, published during the 19th Century,
depicting the ship as she would have looked had she been completed
to her final design, with one gun turret.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 420 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 45963
Monitor Montage, signed by Thomas Fitch Rowland
It includes photographs of the "Monitor Shiphouse"
and USS Puritan on the building ways at the Continental
Iron Works, Greenpoint, New York, and an artwork of the battle
between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia.
The original was in the Office of Naval Records & Library Collection
at the National Archives, circa the early 1960s.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 610 pixels |
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In addition to the above views, we have two other images
of Puritan, showing her (relatively inaccurately) in her
originally planned double-turret configuration:
Photo #: NH 60695
Monitor Puritan
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December
1862, page 584-585, depicting (very inaccurately) the ship's
original two-turret configuration. She was later redesigned with
only one turret. Launched in 1864, Puritan was never completed.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 370 pixels |
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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 |
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