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210:20 ft (6.1 m)
143:General characteristics
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41:had she been completed
470:Secretary of the Navy
897:Ocean-going monitors
522:and she was sold to
518:deteriorated on the
497:Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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599:Canney, pp. 89, 138
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119:2 July 1864
21:USS Puritan
1189:1864 ships
1163:Categories
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1008:Dunderberg
986:City class
607:References
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443:gun turret
410:smoothbore
279:Gun turret
264:smoothbore
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938:Indianola
919:Kalamazoo
870:Milwaukee
821:Canonicus
590:Puritan I
534:Citations
528:same name
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1040:Eastport
1033:Columbia
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878:Marietta
806:Onondaga
477:Dictator
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324:Launched
312:monitors
309:ironclad
259:Armament
136:Scrapped
116:Launched
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966:Choctaw
912:Puritan
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403:Puritan
381:with a
347:Puritan
304:Puritan
153:monitor
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