USS Montauk (left) alongside USS Lehigh in Philadelphia Navy Yard, circa 1902.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Montauk |
Namesake | Montauk, New York |
Builder | Continental Iron Works (Greenpoint, NY) |
Launched | October 9, 1862 |
Commissioned | December 14, 1862 |
Decommissioned | March 1899 |
Fate | Sold, April 14, 1904 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Passaic-class monitor |
Displacement | 750 long tons (760 t) |
Length | 200 ft (61 m) o/a |
Beam | 46 ft (14 m) |
Draft | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
Installed power | 320 ihp (240 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 7 kn (8.1 mph; 13 km/h) |
Complement | 75 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 1 × 15 in (380 mm) smoothbore, 1 × 11 in (280 mm) smoothbore |
Armor |
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Notes | Armor is iron. |
The first USS Montauk was a single-turreted Passaic-class monitor in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
It saw action throughout the war. It was used as the floating prison for the conspirators in the Abraham Lincoln assassination and was the site of the autopsy and identification of assassin John Wilkes Booth.