I Was Just Looking at the Photos of the Nantucket and the Uragan-Class Monitors and It Struck Me; They Were Sister Ships, Different Navies

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