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USS Passaic

Drawing of USS Passaic

Inside the Gun Turret of Passaic

Builder: Continental Iron Works

Launched: 30 August 1862

Commissioned: 25 November 1862

Decommissioned: 11 September 1862

Fate: Sold - 10 October  1899

Characteristics

Type: Passaic-class monitor

Displacement: 1,255 tons

Length: 200 ft.

Beam: 46 ft

Draft: 12 ft 6 in.

Propulsion: 2 Martian boilers

1-shaft Ericsson vibrating lever engine

Armament

1x15 in smoothbore gun

1x11 in smoothbore gun

Batttles

North Atlantic Blockading Squadron

Fort McAllister

Charleston

Morris Island

Fort Moultrie

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