Ten Publications in which USRC Naugatuck is Mentioned
USRC Naugatuck , which was also known as USRC Stevens , was an ironclad that Edwin Augustus Stevens donated to the Treasury Department of the United States of America. Salmon Portland Chase, who had been Secretary of the Treasury at the time in which USRC Naugatuck was delivered to the United States Revenue-cutter Service, re-named the gunboat in honour of the industrialist. It is possible, however, to mistake USRC Stevens for the larger Stevens Battery that was under construction at Hoboken. USRC Naugatuck had been built to provide the Treasury Department, which Chase had asked for half-a-million dollars, with a working model of the design principles which were embodied in the larger ironclad. Ballast tanks, protective iron plates, steam-engines, twin screws and a gun which could have the muzzle of its barrel depressed were among the features that were included in the revenue-cutter. Robert Livingstone Stevens, who was the older brother of E...