USS Monitor 1862 Free 3D print model

The package contains 3D files for model printing - USS Monitor 1862. Note: Stylized model for easy printing.

The template contains the following file formats for printing: .stl, .obj, and .ply.

The size of the model is 160mm (16cm) x 39mm (3.9cm) x 33mm (3.3cm). Scale: 1:340.

Created in Blender 2.79b.

Verts - 707

Faces - 890

Tris - 1414

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Historical Note: USS Monitor was an iron-hulled steamship. Built during the American Civil War, she was the first ironclad warship commissioned by the Union Navy.The Monitor is most famous for participating in the first battle between armored ships of history, Hampton Roads on 9 March 1862, where, under the command of Lieutenant John Worden, she fought the casemate ironclad CSS Virginia (built on the hull of the former steam frigate USS Merrimack),a battles without winners. The unique design of the ship, distinguished by its revolving turret which was designed by American inventor Theodore Timby, was quickly duplicated and established the monitor type of warship.

On 24 December 1862, orders were issued directing Monitor to Beaufort, North Carolina to join USS Passaic and USS Montauk for a joint Army Navy expedition against Wilmington, North Carolina, where she would join the blockade off Charleston.

While the design of Monitor was well-suited for river combat, her low freeboard and heavy turret made her highly unseaworthy in rough waters. Under the command of John P. Bankhead, Monitor put to sea on 31 December, under tow from USS Rhode Island, as a heavy storm developed off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Monitor sank approximately 16 miles (26 km) southeast off Cape Hatteras with the loss of sixteen men, including four officers, some of whom remained in the turret and went down with the ironclad. Forty-seven men were rescued by the life boats from Rhode Island.

Displacement: 987 long tons (1,003 t). /
Length: 179 ft (54.6 m). /
Beam: 41 ft 6 in (12.6 m). /
Draft: 10 ft 6 in (3.2 m). /
Installed power: 320 ihp (240 kW), 2 × Horizontal fire-tube boilers. /
Propulsion: 1 × Propeller, 1 × Vibrating-lever steam engine. /
Speed: 6 knots (11 km/h; 6.9 mph). /
Complement: 49 officers and enlisted men. /
Armament: 2 × 11-inch (280 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns. /
Armor: Gun turret: 8 in (203 mm). /
Waterline belt: 3–5 in (76– 127 mm). /
Deck: 1 in (25 mm). /
Pilot house: 9 in (229 mm).

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