USS Weehawken-- Part 1: An Improved Monitor, But Short Career

From Wikipedia.

A Passaic-class Monitor named for Weehawken, New Jersey.

Launched 5 November 1862 at Jersey City, New Jersey by Zeno Secor  & Company.  Commissioned  18 January 1863, with Captain John Rodgers in command.

200 feet long, beam 46 feet.  Complement: 75 officers and men.  Armament:  One 15-inch smoothbore gun and one 11-inch Dahlgren gun.

The Weehawken was an improved and enlarged Monitor.

Served 11 Months.  --Old B-R'er