U.S.S. Monocacy (1864)
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| 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.
- Commander George A. Bicknell, 16 April, 1898[8]
Armament
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
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 131.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 82.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 82.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 82.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 3.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 82.
- ↑ Friedman. U.S. Small Combatants. p. 418.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1900. p. 12.
- ↑ 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.
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