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USS Passaic
USS Passaic
Inside of Turret of USS Passaic
USS Passaic
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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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