U.S.S. Ammonoosuc (1864)

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U.S.S. Ammonoosuc (1864)
Builder: Boston Navy Yard[1]
Ordered: c. July 1863[2]
Laid down: 1863[3]
Launched: 21 Jul, 1864[4]
Trials: 15 Jun, 1868[5]
Completed: early 1868[6]
Sold: 27 Sep, 1883[7]
Fate: Broken up

U.S.S. Ammonoosuc was a screw frigate completed for the U.S. Navy in 1868.

Construction

Ammonoosuc and her sister Neshaminy were two of the six fast steam frigates ordered by the U.S. Navy for commerce raiding duties should Britain intervene in the Civil War on the Confederate side. Of these six, only Ammonoosuc, Wampanoag and Madawaska were completed. After Neshaminy's machinery was installed it was discovered her hull was twisted and she was left incomplete.[8][9]

Serivce

Ammonoosuc was never commissioned—like her two near-sisters, she was laid up soon after completing her trials as her large machinery spaces left her of little value as a combat ship. Renamed Iowa on 15 May, 1869, she remained at the Boston Navy Yard until 1883, by which time the unseasoned timber of her hull was rotten. She was sold on 27 September, 1883 to Hubel and Porter of Syracuse, New York.[10][11][12]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

As Completed

[13]

  • ten 9-inch smoothbores
  • three 60-pounder muzzle-loading rifles

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 58.
  2. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 58.
  3. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 58.
  4. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 58.
  5. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 58.
  6. ↑ DANFS - Ammonoosuc
  7. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 58.
  8. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 58.
  9. ↑ Silverstone. Civil War. p. 18.
  10. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 58.
  11. ↑ Silverstone. Civil War. p. 18.
  12. ↑ DANFS - Ammonoosuc
  13. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 58.

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.


Screw Frigate U.S.S. Ammonoosuc



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