Gun Squad on Deck of the Monitor USS Lehigh - Circa 1865
Description: 3D red cyan anaglyph from NARA 111-B-612 (525020) - the file was NARA's standard medium res file, but posted in tif format on Wikimedia Commons.
NARA Title: Gun squad on deck of monitor
Date: Winter - Spring 1865
Photographer: Egbert Guy Fowx (1821 - 1889)
Notes: Identity of ship, photographer, and date from same and other images at Library of Congress - see notes in my previous flickr posting; additional notes on the ship are posted here below.
From the "Cruise of the Monitor Lehigh," by Charles Cowley, published in 1883, there is a description of the ship at the beginning of the piece, and a couple pages in, is an interesting but short account of the ship almost going down off Cape Hatteras in 1863.
Physical Description:
"The success of the Monitor in her battle with the Confederate Ram Merrimack (or Virginia) induced the Federal Navy Department to contract at once for the building of nine iron-clads of the Monitor pattern, resembling, according to the homely description of one who witnessed the combat in Hampton Roads, " a cheesebox on a raft." One of these was the Lehigh, built at Chester, Pennsylvania, and costing four hundred thousand dollars. The burden of the Lehigh was about eighteen hundred tons, and a description of her will answer, substantially, for each of the other iron-clads of this class.
She was about two hundred and fourteen feet in length over all, forty-five feet in beam and fourteen feet deep. She drew, when in fighting trim, eleven feet of water. The turret, which contained one fifteen-inch and one eleven-inch Dahlgren gun, was twenty feet in diameter. She carried twelve steam engines, two to propel the ship, two for the turret, and eight for various other purposes. The cruise of the Lehigh began April 15, 1863, and ended with the close of the war."
Off Cape Hatteras:
"She left New York again on August 25th for the South Atlantic squadron. The passage of Cape Hatteras, which proved fatal to the original Monitor, came near proving fatal to the Lehigh. It was only by the greatest care and vigilance that she was prevented from laying her bones with the bones of hundreds of ill-fated barks over which the light of Cape Hatteras revolves forever. She passed Cape Hatteras Light on the night of the 27th and 28th of August, but no one on board saw that light. The sea broke over her decks without intermission during successive watches. It lifted and carried away her bell. There was one period of about an hour and a half, during which the deck could not be seen at all—the sea rolling over it, often as high as the turret. Captain Bryson expected every moment to go down."
Link to "Cruise of the Monitor Lehigh" at Archive.org: archive.org/details/cruiseofmonitorl00cowl/page/n1?q=moni...
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Red/Cyan (not red/blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting. Anaglyph prepared using red cyan glasses from The Center For Civil War Photography / Civil War Trust. CCWP Link: www.civilwarphotography.org/
Gun Squad on Deck of the Monitor USS Lehigh - Circa 1865
Description: 3D red cyan anaglyph from NARA 111-B-612 (525020) - the file was NARA's standard medium res file, but posted in tif format on Wikimedia Commons.
NARA Title: Gun squad on deck of monitor
Date: Winter - Spring 1865
Photographer: Egbert Guy Fowx (1821 - 1889)
Notes: Identity of ship, photographer, and date from same and other images at Library of Congress - see notes in my previous flickr posting; additional notes on the ship are posted here below.
From the "Cruise of the Monitor Lehigh," by Charles Cowley, published in 1883, there is a description of the ship at the beginning of the piece, and a couple pages in, is an interesting but short account of the ship almost going down off Cape Hatteras in 1863.
Physical Description:
"The success of the Monitor in her battle with the Confederate Ram Merrimack (or Virginia) induced the Federal Navy Department to contract at once for the building of nine iron-clads of the Monitor pattern, resembling, according to the homely description of one who witnessed the combat in Hampton Roads, " a cheesebox on a raft." One of these was the Lehigh, built at Chester, Pennsylvania, and costing four hundred thousand dollars. The burden of the Lehigh was about eighteen hundred tons, and a description of her will answer, substantially, for each of the other iron-clads of this class.
She was about two hundred and fourteen feet in length over all, forty-five feet in beam and fourteen feet deep. She drew, when in fighting trim, eleven feet of water. The turret, which contained one fifteen-inch and one eleven-inch Dahlgren gun, was twenty feet in diameter. She carried twelve steam engines, two to propel the ship, two for the turret, and eight for various other purposes. The cruise of the Lehigh began April 15, 1863, and ended with the close of the war."
Off Cape Hatteras:
"She left New York again on August 25th for the South Atlantic squadron. The passage of Cape Hatteras, which proved fatal to the original Monitor, came near proving fatal to the Lehigh. It was only by the greatest care and vigilance that she was prevented from laying her bones with the bones of hundreds of ill-fated barks over which the light of Cape Hatteras revolves forever. She passed Cape Hatteras Light on the night of the 27th and 28th of August, but no one on board saw that light. The sea broke over her decks without intermission during successive watches. It lifted and carried away her bell. There was one period of about an hour and a half, during which the deck could not be seen at all—the sea rolling over it, often as high as the turret. Captain Bryson expected every moment to go down."
Link to "Cruise of the Monitor Lehigh" at Archive.org: archive.org/details/cruiseofmonitorl00cowl/page/n1?q=moni...
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Red/Cyan (not red/blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting. Anaglyph prepared using red cyan glasses from The Center For Civil War Photography / Civil War Trust. CCWP Link: www.civilwarphotography.org/