USS Agamenticus, a 3295-ton Monadnock class twin-turret monitor built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, was commissioned May 1865, just as the Civil War was ending. After brief service along the northeastern U.S. coast, she was decommissioned at Boston, Massachusetts, in September 1865. Renamed Terror in June 1869, while still laid up, she reentered commissioned service in late May 1870. The monitor operated in the western Atlantic and in the Gulf of Mexico until June 1872, when she was again laid up, this time at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania. Two years later, she was broken up and her name used in building a new monitor, which was finally commissioned more than two decades later as USS Terror.
This page features all the views we have related to USS Agamenticus (1865-1874), which was renamed Terror in 1869.
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Photo #: NH 47016 USS Agamenticus (1865-1874, renamed Terror in 1869) Photographed after the addition of a "hurricane deck" amidships, circa 1865. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 435 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 92191 USS Terror (1865-1874, named Agamenticus before 1869) Photographed while laid up at the League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1872-1874. Note the elevated pilothouse fitted atop her forward gun turret. The original print is mounted on a stereograph card. Courtesy of Paul H. Silverstone, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 103KB; 700 x 675 pixels A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 92192 Online Image of stereo pair: 62KB; 675 x 360 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 92938 USS Terror (1865-1874, named Agamenticus before 1869) Photograph lookiing aft from the bow, while she was laid up at the League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1872-1874. Note anchors and anchor davits in the foreground, and the elevated pilothouse fitted atop her forward gun turret. The original print is mounted on a stereograph card. Courtesy of Paul H. Silverstone, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 110KB; 635 x 675 pixels A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 92938-A Online Image of stereo pair: 58KB; 675 x 350 pixels |
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If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 18 January 2002