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MOHONGO side-wheel gunboats (1865-1866)

Monocacy 1900

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
  Ashuelot   Donald McKay, Boston 1863 12.7.1865 4.4.1866 wrecked 18.2.1883
  Mohongo   Secor, Jersey City 1863 9.7.1864 23.5.1865 sold 11.1870
  Monocacy   Denmead, Baltimore 1863 14.12.1864 1866 sold 6.1903
  Muscoota   Continental Iron Wks, New York 1863 1864 5.1.1865 sold 1869
  Shamokin   Reany, Son & Archbold, Chester 1863 1864 17.10.1865 sold 1869
  Suwanee   Reany, Son & Archbold, Chester 1863 13.3.1864 23.1.1865 wrecked 9.7.1868
  Winnepec   Harrison Loring, Boston 1863 20.8.1864 1865 sold 1869

 

Displacement normal, t

1370

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

77.7 wl

Breadth, m

10.7

Draught, m

2.74 mean

No of shafts

side-wheels

Machinery

1 HDA, 2 horizontal tubular boilers

Power, h. p.

850

Max speed, kts

11 - 12

Fuel, t

coal 224
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

4 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 2 x 1 - 163/22 Parrott RML, 2 x 1 - 148/12 24pdr Dahlgren howitzers, 2 x 1 - 93/22 20pdr Parrott RML

Complement

159 - 190

   

Project history: 'Double-enders' contracted for in June-July 1863. As with the wooden-hulled gunboats of this type, the Mohongo class were schooner-rigged, of very full section and were reported unsatisfactory at sea, though Ashuelot accompanied Miantonomoh to Europe and then proceeded to the Far East, and Mohongo navigated the Straits of Magellan in a severe gale.

Modernizations: 1887, Monocacy: was armed with 4 x 1 - 203/14 Dahlgren SB, 2 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott RML, 8 smaller guns

Naval service: Ashuelot was lost 18.2.1833 on the Lamock rocks near Swatow, and Suwanee 9.7.1868 in Shadwell Passage, Queen Charlotte Sound, British Columbia. Monocacy, the last survivor of a class already obsolescent as paddle warships when laid down, took part in the Korean troubles of 1871 and the Chinese 'Yi Ho Tuan' rebellion of 1900.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014