Wampanoag Class Frigate (1864)

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Two Wampanoag class screw frigates were completed for the U.S. Navy in 1866 and 1867.

Overview of two vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Commissioned Fate
Wampanoag New York NYd 3 Aug, 1863 15 Dec, 1864 17 Sep, 1867 Sold 27 Feb, 1885
Madawaska New York NYd Late 1863 8 July, 1865 27 Jun, 1866 Sold 15 Sep, 1886

Design & Construction

The Wampanoags were two of the six fast steam frigates ordered by the U.S. Navy for commerce raiding duties should Britain intervene in the Civil War on the Confederate side. Of these six, only the Wampanoags and their near-sister Ammonoosuc were completed.[1][2]

Performance

Wampanoag briefly reached a speed of almost 18 knots on trial but Madawaska barely managed 15.25 knots.[3][4]

Armament

See individual articles.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. pp. 57-58.
  2. Silverstone. Civil War. pp. 18-19.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 124.
  4. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 58.

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.


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