USS Montauk (1862)

USS Montauk (left) alongside USS Lehigh in Philadelphia Navy Yard, circa 1902.
History
United States
Name	USS Montauk
Namesake	Montauk, New York
Builder	Continental Iron Works (Greenpoint, NY)
Launched	October 9, 1862
Commissioned	December 14, 1862
Decommissioned	March 1899
Fate	Sold, April 14, 1904
General characteristics
Class and type	Passaic-class monitor
Displacement	750 long tons (760 t)
Length	200 ft (61 m) o/a
Beam	46 ft (14 m)
Draft	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Installed power	320 ihp (240 kW)
Propulsion	1 × Ericsson vibrating lever engine 2 × Martin boilers 1 × shaft
Speed	7 kn (8.1 mph; 13 km/h)
Complement	75 officers and enlisted
Armament	1 × 15 in (380 mm) smoothbore, 1 × 11 in (280 mm) smoothbore
Armor	Side: 3–5 in (7.6–12.7 cm) Turret: 11 in (28 cm) Pilothouse: 8 in (20 cm) Deck: 1 in (2.5 cm)
Notes	Armor is iron.

The first USS Montauk was a single-turreted Passaic-class monitor in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

It saw action throughout the war. It was used as the floating prison for the conspirators in the Abraham Lincoln assassination and was the site of the autopsy and identification of assassin John Wilkes Booth.