Pequot 1864
| No | Name | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| Kansas | Philadelphia N Yd | 1863 | 29.9.1863 | 21.12.1863 | sold 9.1883 | ||
| Maumee | New York N Yd | 1863 | 2.7.1863 | 29.9.1864 | sold 12.1869 | ||
| Nipsic | Portsmouth N Yd | 24.12.1862 | 15.6.1863 | 2.9.1863 | BU 1873 | ||
| Nyack | New Yord N Yd | 1863 | 6.10.1863 | 28.9.1864 | sold 11.1883 | ||
| Pequot | Boston N Yd | 1863 | 4.6.1863 | 15.1.1864 | sold 1869 | ||
| Saco | Boston N Yd | 1863 | 28.8.1863 | 11.7.1864 | sold 11.1883 | ||
| Shawmut | Portsmouth N Yd | 2.2.1863 | 17.4.1863 | 1.11.1864 | sold 9.1877 | ||
| Yantic | Philadelphia N Yd | 1863 | 19.3.1864 | 12.8.1864 | loaned to Naval Militia as TS 1898-1917, auxiliary 5.1921 |
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Displacement normal, t |
836 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
54.7 pp |
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Breadth, m |
9.14 |
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Draught, m |
3.50 mean |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
Kansas: 1 HDASE, 2 straight fire-tube boilers Maumee: 1 Ericsson vibrating lever engine, 2 Martin boilers Nipsic, Nyack, Shawmut: 1 HRCRC, 2 Martin boilers Pequot: 1 Wright segmental engine, 2 Martin boilers Saco: 1 Corliss vibrating lever engine, 14 small return fire-tube boilers Yantic: 1 HDASE, 2 Martin boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
225 - 670 Yantic: 310 Nipsic, Shawmut, Nyack: 670 |
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Max speed, kts |
Kansas: 11.6 Saco: 9.5 Maumee: 11.5 Pequot: 11 Yantic: 10 Nipsic: 12 Shawmut, Nyack: 12.5 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 120 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
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Armament |
Kansas: 2 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 203/18 150pdr Parrott RML, 2 x 1 - 94/22 20pdr Dahlgren RML, 2 x 1 - 86/19 12pdr Dahlgren RML Maumee: 1 x 1 - 163/22 100pdr Parrott RML, 4 x 1 - 148/12 24pdr Dahlgren howitzers, 1 x 1 - 107/24 30pdr Parrott RML, 1 x 1 - 86/19 12pdr Dahlgren RML Nipsic: 2 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 203/18 150pdr Parrott RML, 2 x 1 - 148/12 24pdr Dahlgren SB howitzers, 2 x 1 - 117/14 12pdr Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 107/24 30pdr Parrott RML Yantic: 1 x 1 - 203/18 150pdr Parrott RML, 2 x 1 - 148/12 24pdr Dahlgren SB howitzers, 2 x 1 - 117/14 12pdr Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 107/24 30pdr Parrott RML Nyack, Shawmut: 2 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 163/22 100pdr Parrott RML, 2 x 1 - 148/12 24pdr Dahlgren SB howitzers, 1 x 1 - 107/24 30pdr Parrott RML, 2 x 1 - 86/19 Dahlgren RML Pequot: 2 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 203/18 150pdr Parrott RML, 1 x 1 - 107/24 30pdr Parrott RML, 2 - 5 small guns Saco: 1 x 1 - 163/22 100pdr Parrott RML, 6 x 1 - 157/15 32pdr 27cwt Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 107/24 30pdr Parrott RML. 2 - 5 small guns |
| Complement |
96 - 130 |
Project history: Ship- or barque-rigged with one funnel, these gunboats differed considerably in machinery. Kansas had engines taken from the cargo of the blockade runner Princess Royal. It would seem that return connecting-rod engines gave the best results.
Modernizations: by 1865, many were rearmed; Kansas was armed with 2 x 1 - 279/15 Dahlgren SB, 2 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 107/24 30pdr Parrott RML, 5 small guns
by 1921, Yantic: was armed with 4 x 1 - 47/40 Mk I
Naval service: Pequot was sold to Haiti, and Nipsic was 'rebuilt' at Washington Navy Yard, and became one-of the Enterprise class. Yantic was loaned to Naval Militia as TS in 1898 but in 1917 returned to the Navy, recommissioned, stricken in July 1919 but recommissioned again in December and reclassified as unclassified miscellaneous auxiliary IX32 in May 1921. She was again loaned to the Naval Militia in 1926, sunk at pier in Detroit 22.11.1929, finally stricken in 1930 and broken up in 1936.
Shawmut
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