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==Design & Construction== | ==Design & Construction== | ||
An improved version of the preceding ''Sassacus'' class, with much improved seakeeping abilities.{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 82}}{{Conways1860|p. 131}} Their shallow draught enabled their use on Chinese rivers in the absense of specially-designed river gunboats, and {{US-1Monocacy}} survived in this role into the early twentieth century.{{FriedmanUSSmall|p. 418}} | An improved version of the preceding [[U.S.S. Tallapoosa (1863)|''Sassacus'']] class, with much improved seakeeping abilities.{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 82}}{{Conways1860|p. 131}} Their shallow draught enabled their use on Chinese rivers in the absense of specially-designed river gunboats, and {{US-1Monocacy}} survived in this role into the early twentieth century.{{FriedmanUSSmall|p. 418}} | ||
==Performance== | ==Performance== | ||
Revision as of 19:09, 16 December 2014
Two Mohongo class side-wheel gunboats built during the Civil War for the United States Navy survived into the 1880s.
| Overview of two vessels | |||||
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| Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Fate |
| Monocacy | Denmead | 1863 | 14 Dec, 1864 | Early 1866 | Sold Nov 1903 |
| Ashuelot | Donald McKay | 1864 | 12 Jul, 1865 | 4 Apr, 1866 | Wrecked 18 Feb, 1883 |
Design & Construction
An improved version of the preceding Sassacus class, with much improved seakeeping abilities.[1][2] Their shallow draught enabled their use on Chinese rivers in the absense of specially-designed river gunboats, and Monocacy survived in this role into the early twentieth century.[3]
Performance
Armament
As Completed
- four 8-inch smoothbores
- two 60-pounder muzzle-loading rifles
- two 20-pounder muzzle-loading rifles
See Also
Footnotes
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).
- Friedman, Norman (1987). U.S. Small Combatants: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis: Naval Institute 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.
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