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Photo # NH 60256:  USS Manhattan.  1860s lithograph

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USS Manhattan (1864-1902).
Briefly renamed Neptune in 1869

USS Manhattan, a 2100-ton Canonicus class monitor, was built at Jersey City, New Jersey. She was commissioned in June 1864 and immediately sent to the Gulf of Mexico to take part in the planned attack on Mobile Bay, Alabama. On 5 August 1864, in company with the monitors Tecumseh, Winnebago and Chickasaw, she bombarded Fort Morgan as Rear Admiral Farragut's squadron entered Mobile Bay. Later in the day, Manhattan's gunfire helped force the surrender of the Confederate ironclad Tennessee. She also shelled Fort Morgan during the seige that followed.

In November 1864, Manhattan went to New Orleans, Louisiana, for service on the Mississippi River and later on the Red River. She was decommissioned at New Orleans in August 1865 and was briefly renamed Neptune in June-August 1869, while still laid up. Later transferred to Key West, Florida, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Manhattan remained "in ordinary" until November 1873 when she was recommissioned. Following service in Florida and South Carolina waters, in 1877 she went to the James River, Virginia, where she remained until 1888. USS Manhattan spent her last years laid up at Philadelphia's League Island Navy Yard and was sold for scrapping in March 1902.

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Photo #: NH 60256

USS Manhattan
(1864-1902)

Lithograph published during the 1860s, depicting the ship at sea.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 42396

"Battle of Mobile Bay ... Passing Fort Morgan and the Torpedoes"


Print after an artwork by J.O. Davidson, 1886, depicting the Union and Confederate squadrons at the moment that USS Tecumseh sank after striking a mine ("torpedo").
Confederate ships (left foreground) are Morgan, Gaines and Tennessee. Union monitors visible astern of Tecumseh are Manhattan and Winnebago. USS Brooklyn is leading the outer line of Union warships, immediately followed by USS Hartford.

Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 42392

"Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864"


Reproduction of an 1864 pen & ink drawing by George S. Waterman, C.S.N., depicting the action as seen from above and inside the entrance to Mobile Bay.
Confederate ships present are (as identified on the drawing): Selma, Morgan, Gaines (shown twice, in the battle line, and beached off Fort Morgan after the battle) and Tennessee.
Union monitors shown are (from the front of the line): Tecumseh (sinking after striking a mine), Manhattan, Winnebago and Chickasaw. The leading two steam sloops in the Union line are Brooklyn and Hartford.
Small diagram in the lower right represents the various efforts by Union ships to ram the Tennessee later in the action.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 83136

"Entrance of Rear Admiral Farragut in to Mobile Bay. August 5th 1864"


Chart of the action, prepared by RAdm. D.G. Farragut, Washington, D.C., March 1st, 1865.
See Photo # NH 83136 (complete caption) for further information, as printed on the original chart.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 59150

Mobile Bay Campaign, August 1864


Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 17 September 1864.
Entitled "Admiral Farragut's Fleet Bombarding Fort Morgan, August 22, 1864", it depicts the following U.S. Navy ships (from left to right): Lackawanna, Manhattan, Octorara, Brooklyn, Winnebago and Richmond. Fort Morgan is shown in the right center distance, and a battery is at the far left.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 74470

USS Manhattan
(1864-1902)

Tied up in port, circa the 1880s.
The view looks forward along the ship's port side, with her stern in the foreground.

Courtesy of Commander Clayton F. Johnston, USN, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 510 pixels

 


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