The first USS Weehawken was a Passaic-class ironclad monitor in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named after Weehawken, New Jersey.
USS Weehawken
A drawing of Weehawken capturing CSS Atlanta, 17 June 1863
Union ironclads Weehawken, Montauk, and Passaic shelling Fort Moultrie. Photograph taken from ramparts of Fort Sumter
Death of the Weehawken
The Passaic-class ironclad monitors of the U.S. Navy saw service in the U.S. Civil War and the Spanish–American War. The class was an improved version of USS Monitor equipped with a 15-inch Dahlgren gun in place of one of the 11-inch guns.
USS Lehigh on the James River
USS Lehigh and USS Montauk in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, circa 1902