USS Dictator (1863)
USS Dictator was a single-turreted ironclad monitor. Originally to be named the Protector, the Navy Department preferred a more aggressive name. On 1 April 1862, John Ericsson proposed to Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Gustavus Fox, Dictator "a name which I respectfully request for the new Ocean Monarch." The vessel was to be originally armed with two 20-inch (510 mm) caliber smoothbores.
Dictator was launched 26 December 1863 by Delamater Iron Works, New York, NY, under contract with John Ericsson; and commissioned 11 November 1864, Commander J. Rodgers in command.
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