Benecia Class Sloop (1868)

Four Benecia class screw sloops were completed for the U.S. Navy between 1869 and 1872.

Overview of four vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
Benecia	Portsmouth NYd	May 1867	18 Aug, 1868	1 Dec, 1869	Sold 3 May, 1884
Alaska	Boston NYd	1867	31 Oct, 1868	7 Dec, 1869	Sold 20 Nov, 1883
Plymouth	New York NYd	27 Jun, 1867	8 Aug, 1868	20 Jan, 1869	Broken up 1884
Omaha	Philadelphia NYd	1867	10 Jun, 1869	12 Sep, 1872	Sold 17 Apr, 1915

Design & Construction

Designed to replace larger ships in service using Isherwood-designed machinery ordered for the cancelled 1864 Algoma class. It was expected they would be useful for peacetime foreign service duties, "performing with greater economy all the services that could be rendered by larger vessels" according to the Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair.

Armament

See individual articles.

See Also

• Wikipedia

Bibliography

• Bauer, K. Jack and Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. New York: Greenwood Press.
• Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
• Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: Civil War Navies, 1855-1883. New York: Routledge.
• Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.