PUBLISHER: Published by Endicott & Co.
MEDIUM: Two stone lithograph with hand coloring,
DATE: c.1864.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 12 7/8 x 24 3/8" (32.8 x 61.7 cm).
DESCRIPTION: Endicott & Co. Lith. 59 Beekman St. N.Y. The USS Chimo was a single-turreted, twin-screw monitor built by the Aquila Adams company in Boston, Massachusetts. She was launched in May of 1864. The Chimo was a Casco-class, light-draft monitor built for service in shallow bays, rivers, and inlets of the Confederacy. In this class, heavy armor plate was sacrificed for a shallower draft and were fitted with a ballast compartment designed to lower them in the water during battle. She was 225 feet long, 45 feet wide and was armed with one 11” Dahlgren smoothbore gun. She was scrapped in 1874
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Good condition save for some soft damp staining. Some short tears in the margins.
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