The first Passaic was a single turreted, coastal monitor purchased by the United States Navy for service during the American Civil War. Built in New York [ edit ]

USS Passaic (1862), a single turreted, coastal monitor, built by Continental Iron Works, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, under subcontract from John Ericsson, was launched 30 August 1862; and commissioned 25 November 1862.

On the night of 30 December 1862, the world’s first turreted iron warship foundered off North Carolina’s stormy Cape Hatteras. The ship that accompanied her—the USS Passaic—nearly identical in design, survived and lived a long and useful life in …

USS Passaic (YN-113/AN-87) was a Cohoes -class net laying ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was commissioned in March 1945 and spent her entire career in the Pacific Ocean. She was decommissioned in March 1947 and placed in reserve.

Passaic was armed with two large Dahlgren smooth-bore guns: one XI-inch and one XV-inch. Note round shot in the foreground, that at right in a hoisting sling, and turning direction marking on the gun carriage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 58734.

The Passaic was honored on April 14th, 1865, when she was ordered to Charleston to take part in the ceremony of raising the United States Flag over Fort Sumter, exactly four years to the day after Doubleday had surrendered the fort to Beauregard.

USS Passaic, first of a ten-ship class of 1335-ton ironclad monitors, was built at Greenpoint, New York. Commissioned in late November 1862, she was detained at Washington, D.C., for repairs during much of December. After a difficult passage through the storm that sank USS Monitor, she reached Beaufort

The first Passaic, a single turreted, coastal monitor, built by Continental Iron Works, Greenport, N.Y., under subcontract from John Ericsson, was launched 30 August 1862; and commissioned 25...

USS Passaic, first of a ten-ship class of 1335-ton ironclad monitors, was built at Greenpoint, New York. Commissioned in late November 1862, she was detained at Washington, D.C., for repairs during much of December.

Feb 26, 2022 · Passaic-class monitors, designed by John Ericsson, were single-turreted warships that served in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.