1/600 ACW USN from Thoroughbred Models

       As can be seen from the picture above the far larger portion of my unplanned purchase of a bunch of Thoroughbred Models 1/600 ACW ships was vessels from the Union Navy.  Below you can find a full-circuit photo record of each model. I must say that I very much prefer the monitors to the others when it comes to painting and rigging. Aside from that they are all excellent models that my humble skills do not really do proper justice.

       Monitor  The grand-daddy of them all a product of John Ericsson's genius, it set the template for many more ships. Its one significant fight with the CSS Virginia was a draw and it sank in a storm shortly afterwards, but this funny-looking vessel broke the mold and took naval architecture in a whole new direction.

       Passaic   Launched in 1862 she served until 1898. Service during the Civil War was extensive.

       Milwaukee   Launched in 1864, she fought at the Battle of Mobile Bay, later she struck a mine and was lost in March of 1865.

        Roanoke I   Launched in 1855 as a full-rigged screw frigate the Roanoke was converted into a monitor in 1862-63. Not a terribly successful conversion she rolled badly and had a very deep draft. She had limited service during the war and went into reserve at the end of the conflict, being scrapped in 1883.

        Roanoke II  A product of my indiscriminate purchasing of models (there being only one Roanoke) this is a model of the same vessel, I painted it differently as I have differing descriptions as to how the original was painted)

        Dictator    Launched in 1863 she was designed to be an ocean-going monitor. She served until 1877 and was scrapped in 1883.

        Paul Jones    Launched in 1862 she served extensively throughout the war, being decommissioned in1867.

         USS New Ironsides was a wooden-hulled broadside ironclad built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. The ship spent most of her career blockading the Confederate ports of Charleston, South Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1863–65. New Ironsides bombarded the fortifications defending Charleston in 1863 during the First and Second Battles of Charleston Harbor. At the end of 1864 and the beginning of 1865 she bombarded the defenses of Wilmington in the First and Second Battles of Fort Fisher.
Although she was struck many times by Confederate shells, gunfire never significantly damaged the ship or injured the crew.^[2] Her only casualty in combat occurred when she was struck by a spar torpedo carried by the CSS David. Eight crewmen were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during the Second Battle of Fort Fisher in 1865. The ship was destroyed by fire in 1865 after she was placed in reserve. (per Wikipedia)

       Kearsarge     A Mohican class sloop-of-war she was laid down in 1861 and served until wrecked on a reef in 1894. She is famous for catching and sinking the CSS Alabama.

 

        Sassacus   Launched in 1861 she saw extensive service along the Atlantic coast, she was decommissioned in 1865 and later sold.

       Mohican   The name ship for her class, launched in 1859 she served extensively on the Atlantic coast and was only decommissioned in 1872.

       Hartford   a sloop-of-war, steamer, was the first ship of the United States Navy named for Hartford, the capital of Connecticut. Hartford served in several prominent campaigns in the American Civil War as the flagship of David G. Farragut, most notably the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864. She survived until 1956, when she sank awaiting restoration at Norfolk, Virginia. (per Wikipedia)