List of monitors of the United States Navy

List of monitors of the United States Navy

This is a list of all monitors of the United States Navy. While the most famous name is represented in this list, many monitors held multiple names during their service life. To view the complete list of names, click .

The whole category of warship took its name from the first of these, "Monitor", designed in 1861 by John Ericsson. They were low-freeboard, steam-powered ironclad vessels, with one or two rotating armored turrets, rather than the traditional broadside of guns. The low freeboard meant that these ships were unsuitable for ocean-going duties and were always at risk of water entering the ship and causing flooding and possible loss, but it reduced the amount of armor required for protection.

They were succeeded by more seaworthy armored cruisers and battleships.

River monitors

* "Ozark"

"Neosho" class monitors

* "Neosho"
* "Osage"

"Marietta" class monitors

* "Marietta"
* "Sandusky"

Harbor monitors

* "Roanoke"

"Casco" class monitors

* "Casco"
* "Chimo"
* "Cohoes"
* "Etlah"
* "Klamath"
* "Koka"
* "Modoc"
* "Napa"
* "Naubuc"
* "Nausett"
* "Shawnee"
* "Shiloh"
* "Squando"
* "Suncook"
* "Tunxis"
* "Umpqua"
* "Wassuc"
* "Waxsaw"
* "Yazoo"
* "Yuma"

Coastal monitors

* "Monitor"

"Passaic" class monitors

* "Passaic"
* "Montauk"
* "Nahant"
* "Patapsco"
* "Weehawken"
* "Sangamon"
* "Catskill"
* "Nantucket"
* "Lehigh"
* "Camanche"

"Canonicus" class monitors

* "Canonicus"
* "Saugus"
* "Tecumseh"
* "Manhattan"
* "Mahopac"
* "Wyandotte"
* "Ajax"
* "Catawba"
* "Oneota"

"Milwaukee" class monitors

* "Milwaukee"
* "Winnebago"
* "Chickasaw"
* "Kickapoo"

Seagoing monitors

* "Dictator"
* "Onondaga"
* "Puritan"

"Miantonomoh" class monitors

* "Miantonomoh"
* "Monadnock"
* "Agamenticus"
* "Tonawanda"

"Kalamazoo" class monitors

* "Kalamazoo"
* "Passaconaway"
* "Quinsigamond"
* "Shakamaxon"

"New Navy" monitors

The first five of these were ostensibly rebuilds of Civil War era monitors (in much the same way that the 1854 sloop-of-war "Constellation" was ostensibly a refit of the 1797 sail frigate "Constellation"). In fact, they were entirely new ships, much larger and more capable than the previous ones.

"Puritan" class monitors

* "Puritan"

"Amphitrite" class monitors

* "Amphitrite"
* "Monadnock"
* "Terror"
* "Miantonomoh"

"Monterey" class monitors

* "Monterey"

"Arkansas" class monitors

* "Arkansas"
* "Nevada"
* "Florida"
* "Wyoming"

Similar vessels of interest

* "Keokuk"
* "Spuyten Duyvil"
* "Katahdin"

References

*cite book |author=Roberts, William O. |title=Civil War ironclads: the U. S. Navy and industrial mobilization |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore |year=2002 |pages= |isbn=0-8018-6830-0 |oclc= |doi=

External links

* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/01idx.htm navsource.org: Battleship Photo Index]


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