Adams Class Gunboat (1874)

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Five Adams class gunboats (also called the Enterprise class and described as sloops in British some sources[1][2]) were completed for the U.S. Navy during between 1876 and 1879.

Overview of five vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Commissioned Fate
Adams Donald McKay at
Boston NYd
Feb 1874 24 Oct, 1874 21 Jul, 1876 Sold 5 Aug, 1920
Alliance Norfolk NYd 1873 8 Mar, 1875 8 Jan, 1877 Sold 13 Nov, 1911
Enterprise John W. Griffiths at
Portsmouth NYd
1873 13 Jun, 1874 16 Mar, 1877 Sold 1 Oct, 1909
Essex Donald McKay at
Portsmouth NYd
1873 26 Oct, 1874 3 Oct, 1876 Sold 23 Dec, 1930
Nipsic Washington NYd 1873 6 Jun, 1878 11 Oct, 1879 Sold 13 Feb, 1913

Design & Construction

Designed for operating under sail on overseas cruising duties, aided by engines designed by the Bureau of Steam Engineering which were far more economical than those of the Navy's Civil War-era gunboats.[3]

Adams, Enterprise, and Essex were built at Navy Yards by private contractors.[4]

Performance

Armament

[5]

As Completed

  • one 11-inch smoothbore (except for Nipsic, which carried one 8-inch muzzle-loading rifle instead)
  • four 9-inch smoothbores
  • one 60-pounder muzzle-loading rifle (except for Nipsic, which carried a 60-pounder breech-loading rifle instead)

For subsequent modifications, see individual articles.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Silverstone. Civil War. p. 34.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 128.
  3. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  4. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  5. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.

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.
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (2008). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The Navy of World War II, 1922-1947. New York: Routledge.


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