This view looks forward from the port quarter, with the port side blower hatch in the foreground, the two smokestacks in the middle distance and the turret beyond. The sailor standing atop the turret is holding a telescope. Note cookstove supported on bricks at left and awning above the turret. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
View looks forward on the starboard side, with the gun turret beyond.
Note men playing checkers at right. Another man is reading a newspaper by the starboard smokestack. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. The turret, with the muzzle of one of Monitor 's two XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore guns showing, is at left. Note dents in turret armor from hits by Confederate heavy guns and crewmembers atop the turret.