armored ship Thursday on Friday

this Thursday we have the USS Montauk a Passaic Class Monitor of the USN. Montauk was commissioned into the USN on 12/14/1862. she was 200ft. long powered by a 320ihp Ericsson vibrating lever steam engine and could make 7kts. as top speed. [almost all Civil War ironclads were agonizingly slow.} Montauk had 3"-5" of side armor and 11" on the turret. her main battery consisted of one 11" Dahlgren smooth bore gun and one 15" Dahlgren smooth bore gun. with a full charge of black powder a 15" Dahlgren could shoot a 440lb. ball somewhat over a mile. sometimes for greater accuracy the shot would be skipped across the water like a stone. after commissioning Montauk's first captain was John L. Worden who had also been the original Monitor's first captain. on 1/19/1863 the Montauk joined the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Charlestown, SC. she was sent to bombard Ft. McAllister, GA on 1/27/1863 and again on 2/1/1863. later in February she destroyed the blockade runner Nashville with long range gunfire. on 7 April Montauk took place in the bombardment of Ft. Sumter, SC. after this she was on various operations in the south until the end of the war when she returned to the Washington Navy Yard. during her time there she served as a prison for six of John Wilkes Booth's accomplices. his body was also aboard where an autopsy was performed. Montauk next made her way to Philadelphia, PA where she was decommissioned and placed in ordinary. she remained in Philadelphia until recommissioned in May of 1898 for Spanish-American War coast guard duty. she served on this until decommissioned again in 1899. she was finally sold for scrap in 1904. of all the monitors serving in the War Between the States not a one is extant today. we have lots of artifacts and even the turret and guns of the original Monitor but that's all. looks like they could have kept a whole one around somewhere. the first picture is of Captain Worden. the second is Montauk firing on blockade runner Nashville. third is bombardment of Ft. McAllister. fourth we have a picture of one of Montauk's crew's. i think probably this picture was taken during her employment in the Spanish-American War. the last picture is of Montauk on guard in Portland, Maine during her coast guard duties in 1898-1899.