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.
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