Guess the monitor

[APA-168]

Hello all, here is my next design project, got some new info so have forgone Canonicus in favor of this one for the moment. Passaic is done, just waiting on the beta build to finish before final tweaking and release. Next up is the 1892 version and the Uragan, but couldn't resist starting a new project anyways Anyone care to guess the identity of this one? I have a feeling it will be too easy for you lot, smart as you all are.

[cjwalas]

USS Onandaga.

[rickstef]

would be better to rename the picture to something else

[APA-168]

I was hoping no one would catch that...fail on my part, I always forget to change the titles on my pics Doh!

Anyways, yes, it is the Onandaga or Onondaga. Twin turreted monitor which followed the Passaic class and used identical turrets. Only one was built and she was decommissioned in 1865 after just one year of service and promptly sold back to her builders who in turn resold her to the French Navy where she served a full career, finally being decommissioned in 1904 and scrapped shortly thereafter.

[ct ertz]

Is that th one that made a cross-Atlantic trip with no problems, finally proving monitors could make open ocean trips as long as they were well prepped? I know that after the Civil War most of Europe went nuts over monitors. I want them ALL...so I am glad to see you are working on them. Papr Ship Wright has a good selection of post Civil War monitors that I would like too.

[APA-168]

Yes, that is the one! Journeyed from the US to France on her delivery voyage and survived. And I have no intention of stopping soon, I plan to go all the way through to the last class of Monitors built for the US, so look for lots more! Want to eventually do ALL the USN monitors.

[cjwalas]

Yes, sorry, I didn't mean to infer that I actually knew which Monitor it was! Just pointing out the obvious. Still, this one of my favorite Monitor designs.
Avery, you would be doing paper modelers and history a favor by covering this lesser known class of ship!
Chris

[ct ertz]

Here is I think, the last class built in the US. With those big guns on such a small ship it looks a bit out of proportion, but I like it. One day...?

[cdavenport]

I didn't know a monitor was ferried across the Atlantic. So, that makes the Matthew McConahy movie, "Sahara," that much more believable!

[ct ertz]

In the Movie Sahara the ship was the shallow draft iron clad ram Texas. The Confederate ram style ironclads were by all accounts a bit more sea worthy then the Union Monitors, the engines semd to be the weak point in them.