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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Naugatuck (1862)
USS Naugatuck, a 192-ton twin screw steamer built at
New York City in 1844, was converted to a gunboat early in the
Civil War by Edwin
A. Stevens to demonstrate the merits of his ongoing "Stevens
Battery" project. Turned over to the Treasury Department
and taken into the Revenue Cutter Service, she was loaned to the
Navy in the spring of 1862.
Naugatuck played an active role in operations in the
vicinity of Hampton Roads, Virginia, both to counter local Confederate
Navy forces and to support the Union Army's Peninsular Campaign.
She engaged enemy ships and shore batteries on a number of occasions.
During the 15 May 1862 battle at Drewry's Bluff, on the James
River, her single large rifled gun blew up, effectively disarming
her, and Naugatuck was returned to the Revenue Cutter Service
shortly afterwards. She continued in use as the USRC E.A. Stevens
until sold in 1890 and was afterwards the merchant vessel Argus.
This page features and provides links to all the views we
have related to USS Naugatuck (1862).
For views of Naugatuck in action, see:
USS Naugatuck (1862) --
Actions and Activities.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 58871
USS Naugatuck (1862)
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", circa
spring 1862, when the gunboat was operating in the Hampton Roads
area, Virginia.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 58872
USS Naugatuck (1862)
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 26 April
1862, providing a general arrangement diagram of the gunboat's
interior.
Note the extensive provisions for ballasting the ship with water
to reduce her freeboard in action.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 42KB; 740 x 190 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 45657
USS Naugatuck (1862)
19th Century photograph of a contempory model, showing the gunboat's
twin screws, single large gun and other features.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 595 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 45658
USS Naugatuck (1862)
19th Century photograph of a contempory model, with the deck
removed to show the mounting for her single large gun (which
appears to be similar to a Parrott-type rifle).
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 590 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 45659
USS Naugatuck (1862)
19th Century photograph of a contempory model, with the deck
removed to show the mounting for her single large gun.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 595 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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In the following view, USS Naugatuck is only partially
visible, in the center, beyond the monitor in the foreground:
Photo #: NH 464-KN (Color)
Civil War Ironclads at Sea
Chromolithograph by Armstrong & Company, after an 1893 watercolor
by Fred S. Cozzens, published in "Our Navy -- Its Growth
and Achievements", 1897.
Ships depicted are (from left to right):
Monadnock class twin-turret monitor;
Passaic class single-turret monitor (in foreground);
USS Naugatuck;
USS Keokuk
USS New Ironsides and
USS Nantucket.
Collection of Captain Glenn Howell, USN, 1974.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 485 pixels |
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For views of Naugatuck in action, see:
USS Naugatuck (1862) --
Actions and Activities.
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