USS Miantonomoh (1863)
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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
Miantonomoh (center right) and her escorts Augusta (left) and Ashuelot (right) in St John's, Newfoundland, May–June 1866
Miantonomoh in Kiel, Germany, 1866
Gustavus Fox
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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.
USS Miantonomoh (1863)
…stop at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the ships reached St. John's, Newfoundland, on 23 May. There Miantonomoh embarked the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Gustavus Fox on 3 June and the British naval attaché, Captain John Bythesea, VC. The nominal reason for the voyage was an instruction by Secretary of the Navy Gideon…
Gustavus V. Fox