Presenter
John V. Quarstein
Director emeritus of the USS Monitor Center
About the Lecture
America’s first efforts to build an ironclad occurred in 1842 when Congress appropriated $250,000 to Robert Stevens of Hoboken, New Jersey, to construct an armor-cladded warship. After almost $2 million in expenditures, Stevens’s Battery was never finished due to technological and design changes as well as increased costs. Stevens did produce a smaller version known as USRMS Naugatuck. This ironclad fought with USS Monitor during the Battle of Drewry’s Bluff on May 15, 1862, and then decommissioned.
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Location: Explorers Theater
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Image Credit: USS Naugatuck operating in Hampton Roads, VA. Courtesy Naval History and Heritage Command, NH 58871.