THE NAVY IN THE CIVIL WAR
Published
1883, 1885
------------------------
VOLUME I
THE
BLOCKADE AND THE CRUISERS
BY
JAMES RUSSEL SOLEY
PROFESSOR, U.S. NAVY
APPENDIX B.
VESSELS CONSTRUCTED OR PROJECTED,
1861-1865.
UNARMORED
VESSELS.
|
Name |
Guns |
Tonnage |
Remarks |
|
|
Ammonoosuc
Class |
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|
7
screw-sloops: |
17-19[1] |
3,213-3,7131
|
|
|
|
|
Ammonoosuc
(Iowa) |
17 |
3,213 |
|
|
|
Bon
Homme Richard |
26 |
3,213 |
Never
built |
|
|
Chattanooga |
17 |
3,233 |
Sunk
and afterwards sold, 1872 |
|
|
Medawaska
(Tennessee) |
17 |
3,281 |
|
|
|
Neshaminy
(Nevada) |
17 |
3,213 |
Sold,
1877 |
|
|
Pompanoosuc
(Connecticut) |
19 |
3,713 |
|
|
|
Wampanoag
(Florida) |
15 |
3,281 |
|
|
Idaho
Class |
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|
1
screw-sloop: |
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|
|
Idaho |
8 |
2,368 |
|
|
Java
Class |
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|
8
screw-sloops, spar deck: |
25 |
3,177 |
|
|
|
|
Antietam |
25 |
3,177 |
|
|
|
Guerriere |
25 |
3,177 |
Sold,
1872 |
|
|
Illinois |
25 |
3,177 |
|
|
|
Java |
25 |
3,177 |
On
the stocks, 1874 |
|
|
Kewaydin
(Pennsylvania) |
25 |
3,177 |
|
|
|
Minnetonka
(California) |
25 |
3,177 |
Sold,
1875 |
|
|
Ontario
(New York) |
25 |
3,177 |
|
|
|
Piscataqua
(Delaware) |
25 |
3,177 |
|
|
Hassalo
Class |
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|
2
screw-sloops, spar deck: |
25 |
3,365 |
|
|
|
|
Hassalo |
13 |
3,365 |
Never
built |
|
|
Watauga |
13 |
3,365 |
Never
built |
|
Contoocook
Class |
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|
10
screw-sloops, clippers, single deck: |
13 |
2,348 |
|
|
|
|
Arapahoe |
13 |
2,348 |
Never built |
|
|
Contoocook
(Albany) |
13 |
2,348 |
Never built |
|
|
Keosauqua |
13 |
2,348 |
Never built |
|
|
Manitou
(Worcester) |
13 |
2,348 |
Never built |
|
|
Mondamin |
13 |
2,348 |
Never built |
|
|
Mosholu
(Severn) |
13 |
2,348 |
Sold,
1877 |
|
|
Pushmataha
(Congress) |
13 |
2,348 |
Never built |
|
|
Tahgayuta |
13 |
2,348 |
Never built |
|
|
Wanalosett |
13 |
2,348 |
Never built |
|
|
Willamette |
13 |
2,348 |
Never built |
|
Kearsarge
Class |
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|
4
screw-sloops: |
8-10 |
1,023
(avg.) |
|
|
|
|
Kearsarge |
7 |
1,031 |
|
|
|
Oneida |
9 |
1,032 |
Sunk,
Yedo, 1870 |
|
|
Tuscarora |
10 |
997 |
|
|
|
Wachusett |
9 |
1,032 |
|
|
Shenandoah
Class |
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|
6
screw-sloops: |
8-16 |
1,367-1,533 |
|
|
|
|
Canandaigua |
9 |
1,395 |
|
|
|
Lackawanna |
9 |
1,533 |
|
|
|
Monongahela |
9 |
1,378 |
|
|
|
Sacramento |
9 |
1,367 |
Wrecked,
1867 |
|
|
Shenandoah |
9 |
1,378 |
|
|
|
Ticonderoga |
9 |
1,533 |
|
|
Ossipee
Class |
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|
4
screw-sloops: |
10-13 |
1,240 |
|
|
|
|
Juniata |
9 |
1,240 |
|
|
|
Ossipee |
9 |
1,240 |
|
|
|
Adirondack |
9 |
1,240 |
Wrecked,
near Abaco, Aug. 23, 1862 |
|
|
Housatonic |
9 |
1,240 |
Sunk
(torpedo), Feb. 17, 1864 |
|
Serapis
Class |
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|
8
screw-sloops: |
12 |
1,380 |
|
|
|
|
Algoma
(Benicia) |
12 |
1,380 |
Launched,
1869 |
|
|
Confiance |
12 |
1,380 |
Not
built |
|
|
Detroit |
12 |
1,380 |
Not
built |
|
|
Meredosia |
12 |
1,380 |
Not
built |
|
|
Peacock |
12 |
1,380 |
Not
built |
|
|
Serapis |
12 |
1,380 |
Not
built |
|
|
Taghkanic |
12 |
1,380 |
Not
built |
|
|
Talladega |
12 |
1,380 |
Not
built |
|
Resaca
Class |
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|
4
screw-sloops: |
8 |
831-900 |
|
|
|
|
Nantasket |
10 |
900 |
|
|
|
Quinnebaug |
10 |
831 |
|
|
|
Resaca |
10 |
900 |
Sold |
|
|
Swatara |
10 |
831 |
|
|
Nipsic
Class |
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|
8
screw-sloops: |
7-12 |
593 |
|
|
|
|
Kansas |
8 |
593 |
|
|
|
Maumee |
4 |
593 |
Sold, 1869 |
|
|
Nipsic |
4 |
593 |
|
|
|
Nyack |
3 |
593 |
|
|
|
Pequot |
4 |
593 |
Sold, 1869 |
|
|
Saco |
3 |
593 |
|
|
|
Shawmut |
3 |
593 |
|
|
|
Yantic |
--- |
--- |
|
|
Unadilla
Class |
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|
23
screw-gunboats: |
4-7 |
507 |
|
|
|
|
Aroostook |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
1869 |
|
|
Cayuga |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
Oct. 25, 1865 |
|
|
Chippewa |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
Nov. 30, 1865 |
|
|
Chocura |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
1867 |
|
|
Huron |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
May 14, 1869 |
|
|
Itasca |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
Nov. 30, 1865 |
|
|
Kanawha |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
1866 |
|
|
Katahdin |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
Nov. 30, 1865 |
|
|
Kennebec |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
Nov. 30, 1865 |
|
|
Kineo |
--- |
--- |
Sold |
|
|
Marblehead |
--- |
--- |
Sold |
|
|
Ottawa |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
Oct. 25, 1865 |
|
|
Owasco |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
1865 |
|
|
Pembina |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
1865 |
|
|
Penobscot |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
1869 |
|
|
Pinola |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
1865 |
|
|
Sagamore |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
1866 |
|
|
Sciota |
--- |
--- |
Sunk
(torpedo), 1865; sold, 1865 |
|
|
Seneca |
--- |
--- |
Sold |
|
|
Tahoma |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
1867 |
|
|
Unadilla |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
1869 |
|
|
Winona |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
1865 |
|
|
Wissahickon |
--- |
--- |
Sold,
1865 |
|
Pinta
Class |
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|
9
screw-tugs: |
2 |
350 |
|
|
|
|
Fortune |
2 |
350 |
|
|
|
Leyden |
2 |
350 |
|
|
|
Mayflower |
2 |
350 |
|
|
|
Nina |
2 |
350 |
|
|
|
Palos |
2 |
350 |
|
|
|
Pinta |
2 |
350 |
|
|
|
Speedwell |
2 |
350 |
|
|
|
Standish |
2 |
350 |
|
|
|
Triana |
2 |
350 |
|
|
Pilgrim
Class |
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|
2
screw-tugs: |
2 |
170 |
|
|
|
|
Maria |
--- |
--- |
|
|
|
Pilgrim |
--- |
--- |
|
|
Octorara
Class |
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|
12
side-wheel steamers, double-enders |
7-11 |
730-950 |
|
|
|
|
Cimmerone |
10 |
860 |
Sold |
|
|
Conemaugh |
8 |
955 |
Sold, 1867 |
|
|
Genesee |
4 |
803 |
Sold, 1867 |
|
|
Mahaska |
6 |
832 |
Sold |
|
|
Maratanza |
6 |
786 |
Sold |
|
|
Miami |
7 |
740 |
Sold,
1865 |
|
|
Octorara |
6 |
829 |
Sold, 1866 |
|
|
Paul
Jones |
6 |
863 |
Sold, 1867 |
|
|
Port
Royal |
8 |
805 |
Sold, 1866 |
|
|
Sebago |
6 |
852 |
Sold |
|
|
Sonoma |
6 |
955 |
Sold, 1867 |
|
|
Tioga |
6 |
819 |
Sold, 1867 |
|
Sassucus
Class |
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|
27
side-wheel steamers, double-enders |
10-14 |
974 |
|
|
|
|
Agawam |
8 |
974 |
Sold,
1867 |
|
|
Algonquin |
12 |
974 |
Sold,
1869 |
|
|
Ascutney |
8 |
974 |
Sold,
1868 |
|
|
Chenango |
8 |
974 |
Sold |
|
|
Chicopee |
8 |
974 |
Sold,
1865 |
|
|
Eutaw |
8 |
974 |
Sold,
1865 |
|
|
Iosco |
8 |
974 |
|
|
|
Lenapee |
8 |
974 |
Sold |
|
|
Mackinaw |
8 |
974 |
Sold,
1867 |
|
|
Massasoit |
8 |
974 |
Sold,
1867 |
|
|
Mattabesett |
8 |
974 |
Sold,
1867 |
|
|
Mendota |
8 |
974 |
Sold,
1867 |
|
|
Metacomet |
8 |
974 |
Sold,
1868 |
|
|
Mingoe |
8 |
974 |
Sold,
1867 |
|
|
Osceola |
8 |
974 |
Sold,
1867 |
|
|
Otsego |
8 |
974 |
Sunk
(torpedo), Dec. 9, 1864 |
|
|
Pawtuxet |
8 |
974 |
Sold,
1867 |
|
|
Peoria |
8 |
974 |
Sold |
|
|
Pontiac |
8 |
974 |
Sold,
1867 |
|
|
Pontoosuc |
8 |
974 |
Sold,
1866 |
|
|
Sassacus |
8 |
974 |
Sold |
|
|
Shamrock |
8 |
974 |
Sold |
|
|
Tacony |
8 |
974 |
Sold |
|
|
Tallahoma |
8 |
974 |
Sold |
|
|
Tallapoosa |
8 |
974 |
|
|
|
Winooski |
8 |
974 |
Sold |
|
|
Wyalusing |
8 |
974 |
Sold,
1867 |
|
Mohongo
Class |
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|
7
sidewheel steamers, iron, double-enders |
10 |
1,030 |
|
|
|
|
Ashuelot |
10 |
1,030 |
|
|
|
Mohongo |
10 |
1,034 |
Sold,
1870 |
|
|
Monocacy |
10 |
1,030 |
|
|
|
Muscoota |
10 |
1,030 |
Sold,
1869 |
|
|
Shamokin |
10 |
1,030 |
Sold,
1869 |
|
|
Suwanee |
10 |
1,030 |
Wrecked |
|
|
Winipec |
10 |
1,030 |
Sold,
1869 |
|
Wateree
Class |
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|
1
sidewheel steamer, iron, double-ender |
12 |
974 |
|
|
|
|
Wateree |
12 |
974 |
Wrecked,
1868 |
IRONCLADS.
|
Name |
Guns |
Tonnage |
Remarks |
|
|
Sea-going
broadside vessels (casemate): |
||||
|
|
Dunderberg |
10 |
5,090 |
(Rochambeau); sold,
1867 |
|
|
New Ironsides |
18 |
3,486 |
Burned, League Island |
|
Sea-going
turret vessels: |
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|
|
Dictator |
2 |
3,033 |
|
|
|
Puritan |
4 |
3,265 |
|
|
|
Roanoke |
6 |
3,435 |
|
|
Kalamazoo
Class |
|
|
|
|
|
4 double-turret monitors: |
4 |
3,200 |
|
|
|
|
Kalamazoo (Colossus) |
4 |
3.200 |
|
|
|
Passaconaway (Massachusetts) |
4 |
3,200 |
|
|
|
Quinsigamond (Oregon) |
4 |
3,200 |
|
|
|
Shackamaxon (Nebraska) |
4 |
3,200 |
|
|
Monadnock
Class |
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|
4 double-turret monitors: |
4
XV-inch |
1,564 |
|
|
|
|
Agamenticus (Terror) |
4
XV-inch |
1,564 |
|
|
|
Miantonomoh |
4
XV-inch |
1,564 |
|
|
|
Monadnock |
4
XV-inch |
1,564 |
|
|
|
Tonawanda (Amphitrite) |
4
XV-inch |
1,564 |
|
|
Onondaga
Class |
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|
1 double-turret monitor: |
4 |
1,250 |
|
|
|
|
Onondaga |
4 |
1,259 |
Sold |
|
Winnebago
Class |
||||
|
4 double-turret monitors: |
4 |
970 |
|
|
|
|
Chickasaw |
4 |
970 |
Sold, 1874 |
|
|
Kickapoo (Keywadin) |
4 |
970 |
Sold, 1874 |
|
|
Milwaukee |
4 |
970 |
Sunk (torpedo), March 28, 1865 |
|
|
Winnebago (Tornado) |
4 |
970 |
Sold |
|
Canonicus
Class |
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|
9 single-turret vessels: |
2 |
1,034 |
|
|
|
|
Canonicus |
2 |
1,034 |
|
|
|
Catawba |
2 |
1,034 |
Sold, 1868 |
|
|
Mahopac |
2 |
1,034 |
|
|
|
Manayunk |
2 |
1,034 |
|
|
|
Manhattan |
2 |
1,034 |
|
|
|
Oneota |
2 |
1,034 |
Sold, 1868 |
|
|
Saugus |
2 |
1,034 |
|
|
|
Tippecanoe (Wyandotte) |
2 |
1,034 |
|
|
|
Tecumseh |
2 |
1,034 |
Sunk at Mobile |
|
Passaic
Class |
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|
10 single-turret vessels: |
2-4 |
844 |
|
|
|
|
Camanche |
--- |
844 |
|
|
|
Catskill |
--- |
844 |
|
|
|
Lehigh |
2 |
844 |
|
|
|
Montauk |
2 |
844 |
|
|
|
Nahant |
2 |
844 |
|
|
|
Nantucket |
2 |
844 |
|
|
|
Passaic |
2 |
844 |
|
|
|
Patapsco |
2 |
844 |
Sunk, Jan. 15, 1865 |
|
|
Sangamon (Jason) |
2 |
844 |
|
|
|
Weehawken |
2 |
840 |
Sunk, Dec. 6, 1863 |
|
Yazoo
Class |
||||
|
20 single-turret vessels: |
1-2 |
640 |
|
|
|
|
Casco (Hero) |
--- |
614 |
|
|
|
Chimo (Piscataqua) |
--- |
614 |
|
|
|
Cohoes |
--- |
614 |
Broken up, 1874 |
|
|
Etlah |
--- |
614 |
|
|
|
Klamath |
--- |
614 |
Sold, 1874 |
|
|
Koka |
--- |
614 |
Broken up, 1874 |
|
|
Modoc |
--- |
614 |
Broken up, 1874 |
|
|
Napa |
--- |
614 |
Broken up, 1874 |
|
|
Naubuc (Minnetonka) |
--- |
614 |
Broken up, 1874 |
|
|
Nausett |
--- |
614 |
Broken up, 1874 |
|
|
Shawnee |
--- |
614 |
|
|
|
Shiloh (Iris) |
--- |
614 |
Sold, 1874 |
|
|
Squando (Algoma) |
--- |
614 |
Broken up, 1874 |
|
|
Suncook |
--- |
614 |
Broken up, 1874 |
|
|
Tunxis (Otsego) |
--- |
614 |
Broken up, 1874 |
|
|
Umpqua |
--- |
614 |
Sold, 1874; N.O. |
|
|
Wassuc |
--- |
614 |
Broken up, 1874 |
|
|
Waxsaw
(Niobe) |
--- |
--- |
Broken up, 1874 |
|
|
Yazoo |
--- |
--- |
Sold, 1874 |
|
|
Yuma |
--- |
--- |
Sold, 1874 |
|
2 single-turret vessels: |
2 |
479 |
|
|
|
|
Marietta |
2 |
479 |
Sold, 1873 |
|
|
Sandusky |
2 |
479 |
Sold,
1873 |
|
3 single-turret vessels: |
2-7 |
|
|
|
|
|
Neosho (Osceola) |
2 |
523 |
Sold,
1873 |
|
|
Osage |
2 |
523 |
Sold,
1865 |
|
|
Ozark |
7 |
578 |
Sold,
1865 |
|
2 casemate vessels: |
3-5 |
--- |
|
|
|
|
Chillicothe |
3 |
203 |
Sold,
1865 |
|
|
Tuscumbia |
5 |
565 |
Sold,
1868 |
MISCELLANEOUS
|
Name |
Guns |
Tonnage |
Remarks |
|
|
|
Galena |
6 |
738 |
|
|
|
Indianola |
4 |
442 |
Captured in 1863 |
|
|
Keokuk |
2 |
677 |
Sunk in 1863 |
|
|
Monitor |
2 |
776 |
Sunk in 1862 |
[1] The first figures under each class indicate the battery and tonnage as projected.
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