&sq=&lang=&file=File:Stevens_Battery_1874.jpg) A speculative line engraving of Puritan had she been completed
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | Puritan |
| Namesake | Puritan |
| Ordered | 28 July 1862 |
| Builder | Continental Iron Works, Greenpoint, Brooklyn |
| Laid down | 1863 |
| Launched | 2 July 1864 |
| Commissioned | Never |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1874 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean-going monitor |
| Displacement | 4,912 long tons (4,991 t) |
| Tons burthen | 3,265 tons (bm) |
| Length | 340 ft (103.6 m) (o/a) |
| Beam | 50 ft (15.2 m) |
| Draft | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Installed power | 6 × water-tube boilers |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Armament | 2 × 20 in (508 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns |
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USS Puritan was one of two ocean-going ironclad monitors designed by John Ericsson during the American Civil War of 1861–1865. Launched in mid-1864, construction was suspended sometime in 1865. The Navy Department had specified two twin-gun turrets over Ericsson's protests, but finally agreed to delete the second turret in late 1865. The Navy Department evaded the Congressional refusal to order new ships in 1874 by claiming that the Civil War-era ship was being repaired while building a new monitor of the same name.