U.S.S. Dictator
1864
(Rhenania 80)
- Class: Dictator - 1 monitor of 1862
- Displacement: 4,438 tons
- Dimensions: 312' x 50' x 20'6"
- Machinery: 1 screw, 2 Ericsson vibrating-lever engines, I.H.P. 3,500 = 9 knots
- Armor: 15" (turrets), 6" (sides), 1.5" (deck), 12" (pilothouse)
- Armament: 2-15" S.B. guns
- Complement: 174
- Builder: Delamater Iron Works, New York
- Laid down: 16 Aug 1862
- Launched: 26 Dec 1863
- Commissioned: 11 Nov 1864
- Service: North Atlantic Battle Squadron 1864-65. Decommissioned 5 Sep 1865 and placed in ordinary. Recommissioned 20 Jul 1869. North Atlantic Squadron 1869-71, 1874-77. Decommissioned 1 Jun 1877. Sold 27 Sep 1883.
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