Passaic Class Monitor (1862)

Ten Passaic class monitors were completed for the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War. Eight survived in reserve until the end of the nineteenth century.

Overview of eight vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
Passaic	Continental IW	1862	30 Aug, 1862	25 Nov, 1862	Sold 10 Oct, 1899
Nahant	Harrison Loring	1862	7 Oct, 1862	29 Dec, 1862	Sold 6 Apr, 1904
Montauk	Continental IW	1862	9 Oct, 1862	12 Dec, 1862	Sold 14 Apr, 1904
Nantucket	Atlantic IW	1862	6 Dec, 1862	26 Feb, 1863	Sold 14 Nov, 1900
Jason	Reaney, Son & Archbold	mid 1862	27 Oct, 1862	9 Feb, 1863	Sold Apr 1904
Catskill	Continental IW	1862	16 Dec, 1862	24 Feb, 1863	Sold 4 Dec, 1901
Lehigh	Reaney, Son & Archbold	1862	17 Jan, 1863	15 Apr, 1863	Sold 14 Apr, 1904
Camanche	Donohue, Ryan & Secor	1862	14 Nov, 1864	May 1865	Sold 22 Mar, 1899

Design & Construction

The Passaics were improved versions of John Ericsson's epochal Monitor. The principal improvements were an increase in size, and the pilothouse being moved to a position atop the turret instead of near the bow, making communications between the command staff and the gun crews significantly more efficient.

See Also

• Wikipedia

Bibliography

• Bauer, K. Jack and Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. New York: Greenwood Press.
• Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
• Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: Civil War Navies, 1855-1883. New York: Routledge.
• Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.