U.S.S. Passaic
1863
(Aquarius AQ-S-20)
- Class: Passaic - 10 monitors of 1862
- Displacement: 1,355 tons
- Dimensions: 200' x 46' x 11'6"
- Machinery: 1 screw, 2 Ericsson vibrating-lever engines,
4 boilers; IHP 340 = 7 knots
- Armor: 11" turret, 5" sides, 1" deck, 8" pilothouse
- Armament: 1-15", 1-11" Smoothbore guns
- Complement: 67
- Builder: Continental Iron Works, Greenport, New York
- Laid down: 1862
- Launched: 30 Aug 1862
- Commissioned: 25 Nov 1862
- Notes: Highly successful class designed by Ericsson. Basically an improved Monitor with pilothouse located on top of the turret and a permanent smokepipe. Sister ships were Montauk and Nahant (1862), Patapsco, Weehawken, Sangamon, Catskill, Nantucket, and Lehigh (1863), and Camanche (1865).
- Service: North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863. Bombardment of Ft. McAllister, Georgia, 3 Mar 1863. Damaged during bombardment of Charleston forts, 7 Apr 1863. Bombardment of New Smyrna, Florida, 28 Jul 1863. Attacks on Charleston forts, Aug-Sep 1863. Decommissioned, 16 Jun 1865. Recommissioned 1876. Receiving ship at Washington 1878-82, Annapolis 1883-92, and Boston 1893-94. Recommissioned 1898. Sold 10 Oct 1899. Prizes Glide 23 Feb 1863; steamer Presto 2 Feb 1864.
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