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Revision as of 16:29, 16 September 2015

U.S.S. Monocacy (1864)
Builder: A. & W. Denmead[1]
Laid down: late 1863[2]
Launched: 14 Dec, 1864[3]
Commissioned: 11 May, 1866[4]
Stricken: 22 Jun, 1903[5]
Sold: 1 Oct, 1903[6]

U.S.S. Monocacy was one of two Mohongo Class side-wheel gunboats completed for the U.S. Navy that survived into the "New Navy" era.

Service

Her shallow draught and the lack of any purpose-built river gunboats in U.S. Navy service insured her survival, as she and her sister Ashuelot proved uniquely suited to carry out duties on the Yangtze River.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

[9]

1869

  • four 8-inch smoothbores
  • two 60-pounder muzzle-loading rifles
  • two 20-pounder muzzle-loading rifles

1889

  • four 8-inch smoothbores
  • two 60-pounder breech-loading rifles

1900

  • four 1-pounders

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 131.
  2. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 82.
  3. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 82.
  4. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 82.
  5. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 3.
  6. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 82.
  7. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Small Combatants. p. 418.
  8. ↑ Register of Officers, 1900. p. 12.
  9. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 82.

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.


Mohongo Class Side-wheel Gunboat
  Monocacy Ashuelot  
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