Mohongo Class Gunboat (1864)

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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.[1][2] 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.[3]

Performance

Armament

As Completed

[4]

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

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 82.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 131.
  3. Friedman. U.S. Small Combatants. p. 418.
  4. 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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