The last three posts were restricted to just ten sites and did an excellent job of featuring them, but there are more sites, including:
Port O' Plymouth in Plymouth.
Fort Branch on the Roanoke River near Hamilton.
The CSS Neuse Center and CSS Neuse II in Kinston.
The Battle of Goldsboro Bridge in Goldsboro.
The Battle of White Hall (Seven Springs) in Wayne County.
--Old B-Runner
4. BRUNSWICK TOWN / FORT ANDERSON in Winnabow (near Wilmington).
Brunswick Town was a Colonial era town. Fort Anderson was built across its remains to protect Wilmington along the Cape Fear River. Visitor center, walking trails and preserved earthen fortifications.
5. FIRST BATTLE OF KINSTON CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELD PARK in Kinston.
The park was the site of the First Battle of Kinston fought in late 1862 pitting some 2,400 Confederates against 12,000 Union soldiers.
6. ROANOKE ISLAND in Outer Banks, Dare County.
The Battle of Roanoke Island took place early in 1862. More than 20,000 soldiers and close to 60 vessels took part on the two sides.
--Old B-Runner
From the September 8, 2021, New Bern (NC) Sun-Journal by Todd Wetherington.
1. NEW BERN BATLEFIELD PARK in New Bern.
Includes more than 30 acres of the battlefield which took place March 14, 1862. There is a history walk now which includes 35 interpretive panels of the battle and impact on New Bern.
2. NEW BERN ACADEMY in New Bern.
Located four blocks from the Tryon Palace, built in 1809 as a school for boys and girls. Used as a hospital during the war and recruitment place for the 35th USCT. Today it is a museum.
3. FORT FISHER in Kure Beach.
You might say I've written a little bit about this place.
--Old B-Runner
** PERUN (Perun)-- Laid up and decommissioned in 1900 after which, she served as a pilot ship, being renamed Lotsiia (Pilot) in 1915. She was badly damaged during the Kronstadt rebellion in 1921. She was later flooded and deliberately run aground in 1924 and broken up by the end of 1925.
** VESCHUN (Soothsayer)-- Laid up and decommissioned in 1900. She was then converted into a coal barge and renamed Barzha No. 44 and then Barzha No. 327. She was abandoned by the Russians when they withdrew from Helsinki in April 1918 and broken up by the Finns in the 1920s.
** KOLDUN (Sorcerer)-- Laid up and decommissioned in 1900. She was then converted into a coal barge and renamed Barzha No. 31, then Barzha No. 50 and finally Barzha No. 323. She was abandoned by the Russians in April 1918 and broken up by the Finns in the 1920s.
--Old B-R'er
** BRONENOSETS (Armadillo)-- Laid up and decommissioned in 1900. She was then converted into a coal barge and renamed Barzha No. 34, the Barzha No. 51 and finally Barzha No. 3234. She sank in the Gulf of Finland during a storm in World War I.
** LATNIK (Cuirassier)-- Laid up and decommissioned in 1900. She was then converted into a coal barge and renamed Barzha No. 38 and then Barzha No. 326. She was abandoned by the Russians when they withdrew from Helsinki in 1918, and she was broken up by the Finns in the 1920s.
** LAVA (Avalanche)-- Laid up and decommissioned in 1900. She was hulked and renamed Blokshiv No. 1, and served as a mine depot until 1916, when she was converted into a hospital barge. She was abandoned by the Russians when they withdrew from Helsinki in April 1918, but later returned to Russia by the Finns. Probably broken up in the 1920s, but her hull might even have survived until World War II.
--Old B-Runner
From the 6 September 2019 Wargaming Miscellany site "The Russian Monitor Strelets."
URAGAN (HURRICANE)
Laid up and decommissioned in 1900.
TIFON (TYPHOON)
Decommissioned in 1900. Hulked and served as a mine depot from 1909 and broken up in the 1920s.
STRELETS (MUSKETEER)
Laid up in 1900. Hulked and renamed the Plavmasterskaia No. 1, and served as a floating workshop until 1955. Her hull still remains afloat in Kronstadt.
EDINOROG (UNICORN)
Laid up 1900. She was hulked , renamed Blokshiv No. 4, and served as a mine depot from 1912. She was abandoned by the Russians when they withdrew from Helsinki in April 1918, but she was later returned by the Finns.
The ship was renamed as Blokshiv No. 2 in 1932 and survived World War II. She was renamed again in 1949 and became the BSh-2, an abbreviated form of Blokshiv No. 2. She was stricken in 1957 and thought to have been handed over to the Kronstadt Yacht Club for use as a storage barge. Her ultimate fate is unknown.
--Old B-RussMonitor
From the Abandoned Warships site. "Russian Monitor Strelets" Video. (Definitely something to check out.)
When the Strelets was converted into a floating workshop in 1901, construction workers added an additional hull over the monitor hull. Only the lower part of the hull showing is the actual hull. The current photographs show mostly the added hull on the ship. Remember that monitors rode low in the water.
The narrator isn't sure if the original turret is preserved within the hull, but doesn't think it is. I'm fairly sure it was removed, but wouldn't that be something if it was still there. The guns, of course, would have been removed.
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There is also an extended discussion on the Civil War Talk site about the Strelets from May 17, 2017, "Russian Monitor To Be Restored."
--Old B-Runner
While serving as a permanent workshop at Kronstadt Navy Base, she saw a lot of history go by. She witnessed the Russian Baltic fleet sail away to its destruction during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-1905, supported operations against the Germans (1914-1917) in the Great War, witnessed the Red Fleet arise during the Revolution, withstood the British during the Russian Civil War, survived the storming of Kronstadt by the Reds in 1921, lent her shops to the Red Banner Fleet against the Finns (1939-40) then the Germans again (1941-45).
In all, she spent 90 years on Russian rolls in one form or another.
After leaving navy service, she was in a variety of roles in and around Leningrad/St. Petersburg and in 2015, was found in floating condition, her internals still showing off those classic Civil War lines.
She has since been recovered by a group terming itself "The Foundation for Historic Boats", who , together with the Russian Central Military History Museum, are attempting to restore her to a more monitor-like condition.
She could very-well be the oldest monitor remaining afloat.
(From the looks of the recent picture of the ship I'd say they have a REALLY long way to go, but wish them a whole lot of luck.
--Old B-Runner
From the June 21, 2017,laststandonzombie island "Warship Wednesday: The Tsar's Everlasting Musketeer.
The article also has an in depth look at U.S.-Russian relations during the Civil War.
Strelets means Sagittarius of the Zodiac. but also was the name of an early corps on musketeers established in the 16th century and retained until Peter the Great decided to get rid of them.
She was laid down at the Galernyi Island Shipyard, Saint Petersburg on 1 December 1863, just weeks after her plans had been obtained from the United States and commissioned 15 June 1865 and built at a cost of 1.1 million rubles alongside her sister Edinorog. These two monitors were the last of ten completed.
Rapidly obsolete by the end of the 19th century, on February 1, 1892, the Strelets and her nine sisters were reclassified as coastal defense ships (which is essentially all they had done in the intervening years.
By 1900 all ten were withdrawn from service and disarmed.
While many were soon scrapped, the Strelets was reclassified as a floating workshop at Kronstadt on 22 February 1901 and was retained in service until 1955.
--Old B-Runner
From the October 18, 2018, Mechtraveller by Alastair.
And, remember, the Strelets was a Uragan-class Russian monitor built to the specs of a American Passaic-class monitor from the Civil War. So, in effect, it would be a Union Civil War monitor.
The TASS news agency today is reporting comments made by Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov about the 19th century armored gunboat, the Strelets.
The Strelets was a 200 ft Uragan class, armored monitor. She joined the Baltic Fleet in 1865 and was taken out of service in 1900 to be used until 1955 by the Russian Navy as a floating workshop at the Kronstadt Navy base outside St. Petersburg, where she was rediscovered in 2015.
Speaking at a press conference in St. Petersburg earlier today, Colonel-General Kartopolov said, "I discussed this theme with the Navy's commander-in-chief earlier today. In Kronstadt there is a unique ship called the Strelets. It is older than the Aurora. We plan to turn it into a museum."
He said that the restoration work on the ship will begin soon with a view to having it ready for public display by the 75th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War. - 9 May 2020.
Looking Forward to It. --Old B-Runner
The commissioning ceremony for the USS New York took place on November 7, 2009, in New YorkCity. Speakers included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, Governor David Paterson, Mayor Michael Blomberg, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead and Commandant of the Marine Corps General James T. Conway.
Approximately one in seven plank owners are from New York state, a larger number than usual. A plank owner is a member of a ship's company when it is commissioned.
The commissioning took place at the Intrepid Museum, Pier 88 South, Pier 86 North, NYC, NY.
Dotty England, the ship's sponsor and wife of Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon R. England, smashed the traditional champagne bottle on the ship's bow and christened the ship New York. Gordon R. England had been Secretary of the Navy when the request for the ship's name had come to him and approved it.
Gordon R. England was also there for the christening along with other dignitaries including Louisiana Congressman William J. Jefferson, members of the New York City Police Department, members of the New York City Fire department, and family members of victims of the 9/11 attacks.
The champagne bottle did not break the first time it was struck against the hull of the New York, but the second attempt was successful.
The ship was delivered to the U.S. Navy on 21 August 2009 at New Orleans. She set sail for Norfolk, Virginia, on 13 October 2009. On 2 November 2009 the ship passed the World Trade Center site for the first time and gave the site a 21-gun salute.
Seven and a half short tons of steel used in the construction of the New York came from the rubble of the World Trade Center; this represents less than one thousandth of the total weight of the ship. The steel was melted down at Amite Foundry and Machine in Amite, Louisiana, to cast the ship's bow section.
It was poured into molds on 9 September 2003, with 7 short tons cast to form the ship's "stem bar" -- part of the ship's bow. The foundry workers reportedly treated the metal with "reverence usually accorded to religious artifacts," gently touching it as they walked by. One worker delayed his retirement after 40 years of working to be part of the project.
The New York was christened on 1 March 2008, in a ceremony at at Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans.
From Wikipedia.
A San Antonio -class amphibious transport dock, and the fifth ship in the U.S. Navy to be named after the state of New York.
I have been writing about her sister ship, the USS Green Bay (LPD-20) in my Cooter's History Thing blog.
Shortly after September 11, 2001, New York governor George E. Pataki wrote a letter to Secretary of Navy Gordon R. England requesting that the Navy bestow the name "New York" to a surface ship involved in the Global War on Terror to honor the victims of the September 11 terror attacks.
In his letter, the governor said he understood state names were now reserved for submarines but asked for special consideration so the name could be given to a surface ship. The request was approved on 28 August 2002.
STRELETS
(1865-1900) Like the Uragan and Tifon, not much is known about her career. She was present when the American warships Miantonomah (double-turreted monitor) and Augusta visited Kronstadt in July-August 1866.
On 21 July 1875, the Russian two-turret monitor Admiral Chichagov ran aground and the Strelets was sent to help her the following day. While assisting with the rigging of a hawser between the Admiral Chichagov and the armored frigate Sevastopal, the hawser unexpectedly slid across the Strelet's deck, injuring the ship's executive officer and a bosun, who later died of his injuries.
Coal and equipment were removed from the grounded Admiral Chichagov, but it was not enough to refloat her. Finally, several barges and a floating crane came out from Kronstadt and the Chichagov was pulled free on July 25.
The Strelets was reclassified as a coast-defense ironclad on 13 February 1892 and turned over to the port of Kronstadt for disposal 6 July 1900, although she was not stricken from the navy list until August 17. It was converted into a floating workshop the next year and renamed the Plavmasterskaia No. 1.
She remained in service until the end of 1955.
The Strelets was discovered intact at St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2015.
Now, this last bit of information has piqued my interest a great deal.
--Old RussianMonitor
Just to the right of these posts at this time is a picture of the American monitor USS Nantucket (which took that beating at the Battle of Fort Sumter in 1863) and the Russian Uragan-class monitor above it.
I started writing about the USS Nantucket on August 12 and continued until August 18 after seeing that our newest U.S. Navy ship named the Nantucket had just been launched. It is the USS Nantucket (LCS-27), a Littoral Combat Ship.
That led to the Civil War USS Nantucket.
Then, the next article I came across was about the Russian monitor Novgorod. To say he least, it was quite a peculiar-looking ship (the picture is also to the right of this at this time). From there, I found there was a whole class of Russian monitors that even more closely resembled American monitors than did the Novgorod.
The Uragan-class of Russian monitors was built to the specs of the U.S. Passaic-class monitors and the USS Nantucket was a Passaic-class monitor.
So a Russian sailor from a Uragan monitor would definitely feel right at home on the USS Nantucket.
A Sister From Another Mother As It Were. --Old B-Runner
The lead ship of her class and based on the designs of the Union's Passaic-Class monitors.
She entered Russian service in 1865 and cost nearly double what was proposed. She was assigned to the Baltic Fleet. All of her sister ships except the Latnik, made a port visit to Stockholm, Sweden July-August 1865.
Sometime after she was completed, an armored ring was fitted around the base of the turret to prevent splinters from jamming it. Later an armored bulwark was fitted to the top of the turret to provide protection for crewmen up there.
Three sponsons were added, probably during the 1870s, to the upper portion of each turret to mount a light gun, probably a 1,75-inch Engstrem gun.
Little is known about the ship's naval career except that she was laid up each winter when the Gulf of Finland froze. She was reclassified as a coast defense ironclad on February 13, 1892. It was stricken in August 1900 and in 1903, was converted into a coal barge with the removal of its turret, her side armor and wooden backing.
It served in that capacity until it was abandoned by the Soviets when they were forced to withdraw from Finland according to the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and was later scrapped by the Fins.
--Old B-Runner
From Wikipedia,
Not much is known of the career of the Russian monitor Uragan.
It cost 1,105,800 rubles and was launched 27 May 1864, out of service 6 July 1900.
Length: 201 feet
Beam: 46 feet
Crew: 96-110
Armament:
1865: Two nine-inch smoothbores
1868: Two 15-inch Rodman guns
1873: Two 9-inch rifled guns
--Old B-Runner
