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Photo # NH 42278:  Monitor Puritan.  19th Century line engraving depicting the ship's intended appearance

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-- 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.


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

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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

 
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

 


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

 
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

 


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


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Page made 22 February 2002