Gustavus Fox
Videos
Gustavus Vasa Fox was an officer of the United States Navy, who served during the Mexican–American War, and as the first Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War.
Gustavus V. Fox
USS Miantonomoh (1863)
Videos
The first USS Miantonomoh was the lead ship of her class of four ironclad monitors built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Completed after the war ended in May 1865, the ship m
Gustavus Fox
…Russia; he conveyed the congratulations of the President to Tsar Alexander II upon his escape from assassination. His voyage was made in the monitor Miantonomoh, which was the first vessel of this class to cross the Atlantic. They were accompanied by Augusta. In 1882 he published a paper suggesting that Samana…
Miantonomoh (center right) and her escorts Augusta (left) and Ashuelot (right) in St John's, Newfoundland, May–June 1866
Miantonomoh in Kiel, Germany, 1866