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Latest revision as of 20:43, 3 November 2015
| U.S.S. Canandaigua (1862) | |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Boston Navy Yard[1] |
| Ordered: | c. October 1861[2] |
| Laid down: | December 1861[3] |
| Launched: | 28 March, 1862[4] |
| Commissioned: | 1 August, 1862[5] |
| Decommissioned: | 8 November, 1875[6] |
| Scrapped: | 1884[7] |
| Fate: | at Norfolk, Virginia[8] |
U.S.S. Canandaigua was a screw sloop completed for the U.S. Navy in 1862.
Construction
Her Isherwood-designed engines, contracted to the Atlantic Iron Works of Boston, were indentical to those of the other 1861 sloops.[9]
Service
Bowsprit added during 1865.[10]
During her 1869-1872 refit, Canandaigua was given a clipper bow.[11]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Armament
1872
- two 11-inch smoothbores
- eight 9-inch smoothbores
- two 20-pounder muzzle-loading rifles
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
- ↑ Silverstone. Civil War. p. 25.
- ↑ Silverstone. Civil War. p. 25.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
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.
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