USS Montauk (1862)
USS Montauk (left) alongside USS Lehigh in Philadelphia Navy Yard, circa 1902.
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| Name: | USS Montauk |
| Namesake: | Montauk, New York |
| Builder: | Continental Iron Works |
| Launched: | 9 October 1862 |
| Commissioned: | 14 December 1862 |
| Decommissioned: | March 1899 |
| Fate: | sold, 14 April 1904 |
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| 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) |
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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 |
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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.
Montauk was built by John Ericsson at Continental Iron Works, Greenpoint, Brooklyn; launched on 9 October 1862; and commissioned at New York on 14 December 1862, Commander John L. Worden in command.
A principal ironclad in the naval attack on Charleston, South Carolina, Montauk departed New York on 24 December 1862, arriving Port Royal, South Carolina on 19 January 1863 to join the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Taking advantage of the opportunity to test the XV-inch Dahlgren gun and armor of the Passaic-class ironclad for the first time, on 27 January, Rear Admiral Samuel F. Du Pont sent Montauk, with the gunboats USS Seneca, USS Wissahickon, USS Dawn and mortar schooner USS C. P. Williams to bombard Fort McAllister, Georgia. Although hit 13 times, Montauk was undamaged. The ironclad made a second attack on 1 February, badly battering the fort; but Montauk was hit 48 times. She destroyed the blockade runner Rattlesnake on 28 February in Ogeechee River but while descending the river was herself damaged by a torpedo (mine) which exploded under her.
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