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
A monitor is a type of small warship that is neither fast nor strongly armored but carries disproportionately large guns. Monitors were used by some navies from the 1860s, during the First World War a
USS Weehawken (1862)
…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. Weehawken was launched on 5 November 1862 at Jersey…
USS Monitor, the first monitor (1861)
HMS Marshal Ney used a surplus 15-inch gun battleship turret.
Officers of a Union monitor, probably USS Sangamon, photographed during the American Civil War
Huáscar anchored in the harbour at Talcahuano