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“United States Iron Clad Ram DICTATOR / Designed by J. Ericsson / Built at the Delamater Iron Works, New York”

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c. 1868 Post Civil War, Hand-Colored Mammoth Size Lithograph titled, “United States Iron Clad Ram DICTATOR / Designed by J. Ericsson / Built at the Delamater Iron Works, New York”, Published by Endicott & Co., New York, (1864-1883), Framed, Choice Crisp Near Mint.

This Mammoth Size Hand-Colored Lithograph is magnificent, being bright and vivid with excellent eye appeal. It measures about 16.5” x 28.75” (by sight), matted and beautifully (expensively) professionally matted and framed to fully 27.5” x 39.5” shown under special UV Plexiglas, and ready to hang on display. Published by Endicott & Co., New York, with full title in the lower margin reading: “United States Iron Clad Ram / DICTATOR / Designed by J. Ericsson / Built at the Delamater Iron Works, New York”, and with dimensions and specifications to either side. Image shows “Dictator” at sea with other shops in the background.

The single-turret seagoing Monitor, USS Dictator, was launched December 26, 1863 and commissioned November 11, 1864. Originally she was to be called “Protector,” however she was named “Dictator” on 1 April 1862, after its designer John Ericsson requested it be renamed, from the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. She was assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron but an unreliable engine cut her service short multiple times before the Navy decommissioned the ship for good in 1877.
USS Dictator (1864-1883), was a 4438-ton single-turret Seagoing Monitor, built at New York City, was commissioned in November 1864.

Originally she was to be called “Protector,” however she was named “Dictator” on 1 April 1862, after John Ericsson requested it from the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Gustavus Fox.

Dictator was laid down by Delamater Iron Works, in New York, New York, under contract with John Ericsson on 16 August 1862, and launched on 26 December 1863. The warship was commissioned on 11 November 1864, under the command of Commander J. Rodgers, with a crew of 174.

Dictator was 312 ft (95.1 m) long, 50 ft (15.2 m) wide, had a draft of 20 ft 6 in (6.2 m), and displaced 4,438 long tons (4,509 t). She had a top speed of 10 knots (18.5 km/h; 11.5 mph), and was propelled by two screws and a two-cylinder Ericsson vibrating lever-engine, with a total of 3,500 indicated horsepower (2,600 kW). It is thought that she had a light hurricane deck amidships. She was designed to carry 1,000 tons of coal.

She was armed with two 15-inch (38 cm) Dahlgren smoothbore guns. She had 15 inches of armor on the turret, 12 in (305 mm) on the pilothouse, 6 in (152 mm) on the hull, and 1.5 in (38 mm) on the deck. She had a crew of 174 men

Construction problems with her powerplant kept her initial service relatively brief and inactive, and she was decommissioned in September 1865 at the League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dictator was recommissioned in July 1869 for service with the North Atlantic Fleet, but was again laid up in June 1871.

Her final period of commissioned service service lasted from January 1874 until June 1877 and was also spent in the Atlantic coast area. After six years "in ordinary" at League Island, USS Dictator was sold for scrapping in September 1883.
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