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1893 Johannes Ericsson, Schenkman-MO-23, MS62 NGC. Silver. Ex: Schenkman Collection. A MUST FOR ALL CIVIL WAR COLLECTORS!!!  

John Ericsson (born Johan Ericsson; July 31, 1803 – March 8, 1889) was a Swedish-American inventor.  He was active in England and the United States. In North America, he designed the United States Navy‘s first screw-propelled steam-frigate USS Princeton, in partnership with Captain (later Commodore) 

Robert F. Stockton (1795-1866), who unjustly blamed him for a fatal accident. A new partnership with Cornelius H. DeLamater (1821-1889), of the DeLamater Iron Works in New York City resulted in the first armored ironclad warship equipped with a rotating gun turret, USS Monitor, which dramatically saved the U.S. (Union Navy) naval blockading squadron from destruction by an ironclad Confederate States naval vessel, CSS Virginia, at the famous Battle of Hampton Roads at the southern mouth of Chesapeake Bay (with the James River) in March 1862, during the American Civil War.