USS Camanche (1864)
USS Camanche off Mare Island, during the Spanish–American War
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Camache |
Builder | Donohue, Ryan & Secor |
Launched | November 14, 1864 |
Commissioned | May 1865 |
Decommissioned | 1898 |
Fate | Sold, March 22, 1899 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Passaic-class ironclad monitor |
Displacement | 1,335 long tons (1,356 t) |
Length | 200 ft (61 m) overall |
Beam | 46 ft (14 m) |
Draft | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
Installed power | 320 ihp (240 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 7 kn (8.1 mph; 13 km/h) |
Complement | 76 |
Armament | 2 × 15 in (380 mm) Dahlgren guns |
Armor | |
Notes | Armor is iron. |
USS Camanche was a
Commissioned just after the end of the Civil War, for more than a year—until the arrival of the larger monitor Monadnock—Camanche was the only U.S. ironclad on the Pacific coast, and she was one of but two stationed there for nearly 25 years.
Camanche's career was a quiet one, with the ship generally maintained in decommissioned status at the
Camanche was sold on 22 March 1899 for the sum of 6,581.25 dollars.
References
- ^ a b c "From a United States Monitor to a Collier". The San Francisco Call. 20 November 1899. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
- ^ a b "The Camanche". The San Francisco Call. 26 March 1899. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
- ^ "The Camanche". Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel. 21 Nov 1863. p. 2.
- ^ "Militiamen are Anxious". The San Francisco Call. 3 April 1898. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
- ^ Bradley, Jesse N. (May 1978). "Camanche, The Snakebit Monitor" (PDF). The Retired Officer: 20–23. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
- ^ Sausalito News, Volume LII, Number 10, 5 March 1937 California Digital newspaper collection accessed January 17,2019
Bibliography
- Wright, Christopher C. (June 2021). "Canonicus at Jamestown, 1907". Warship International. LVIII (2): 126–162. ISSN 0043-0374.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- Additional technical data from Gardiner, Robert (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Conway Maritime Press. p. 120. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.