Mohongo Class Gunboat (1864)

Two Mohongo class side-wheel gunboats built during the Civil War for the United States Navy survived into the 1880s.

Overview of two vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
Monocacy	Denmead	1863	14 Dec, 1864	11 May, 1866	Sold 1 Oct, 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. 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.

Armament

As Completed

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

See Also

• Wikipedia

Bibliography

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• Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.