Commissioned At Philadelphia in 1863
The first Navy ship to be named Saugus after the town of Saugus, Massachusetts, she was a single-turreted monitor launched on 16 December 1863 by Harlan & Hollingsworth & Co., Wilmington, Delaware; and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 7 April 1864, Commander Edmund R. Colhoun in command.
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