Charles William MacCord-- Part 2: Involved in Construction of the USS Monitor

Stevens Institute of Technology

The library has three linear feet of Mr. MacCord's papers (and in this case including plans to the USS Monitor).

  The documents span 1860 to 1865.

It was the designer, John Ericsson who named his ship the Monitor.

The USS Monitor was laid down by the Continental Ironworks in New York City on October 25, 1861 and launched exactly 100 days later on January 30, 1862.

Charles William MacCord joined the Delamater Ironworks, New York City, and became chief draughtsman for John Ericsson from 1859-1868.  He drew at least 34 of the drawings for the Monitor.

After the war, he was the first chairman of the Mechanical Drawing Department at the Stevens Institute of Technology when it opened in 1871.

After the famous battle with the CSS Virginia, the Navy canceled all plans for construction of wooden warships according to the site, but I'm not sure about this.

--Old B-R'er

Charles William MacCord-- Part 1: Ericsson's Chief Draftsman

From the Oct. 10, 2010 Dead Confederates blog.  The Monitor's Screw.

Back on October 30, I wrote about this man when I came across his name and what he did in the Stevens Institute student newspaper.

It is surprising, that with over 100 patentable inventions on the USS Monitor that no one in authority bothered to preserve the ship's construction drawings..  The Navy didn't, the Continental Ironworks who built it didn't, nor did the ship's inventor, John Ericsson.

But, these drawings were saved by Charles William MacCord, described as the "cantankerous chief draftsman, of John Ericsson.

MacCord was later on the faculty of the Stevens Institute of Technology when it opened and this is where the drawings are preserved.

Thanks Mr. MacCord

Charles William MacCord, Engineer on USS Monitor Construction

From the October 27, 2017, The Stute (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey).

Robert Thurston was the first professor of Engineering at the school.  And Charles William MacCord was another early one.  He was one of the engineers on the USS Monitor, a ship that had a huge impact on naval architecture.

--Old B-Runner