U.S.S. Canandaigua (1862)

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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

[12]

1872

  • two 11-inch smoothbores
  • eight 9-inch smoothbores
  • two 20-pounder muzzle-loading rifles

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
  2. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
  3. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
  4. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
  5. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
  6. ↑ Silverstone. Civil War. p. 25.
  7. ↑ Silverstone. Civil War. p. 25.
  8. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
  9. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
  10. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
  11. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 68.
  12. ↑ 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.


Screw Sloop U.S.S. Canandaigua



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