USS Canandaigua (1862)
USS Canandaigua on November 19, 1870.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Canandaigua |
Namesake | Canandaigua Lake and Canandaigua, New York |
Builder | Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts |
Launched | March 28, 1862 |
Commissioned | August 1, 1862 |
Decommissioned | April 8, 1865 |
Recommissioned | November 22, 1865 |
Renamed | USS Detroit May 15, 1869 |
Namesake | Detroit, Michigan |
Renamed | USS Canandaigua August 10, 1869 |
Decommissioned | November 8, 1875 |
Fate | Scrapped 1884 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Sloop-of-war |
Displacement | 1,395 long tons (1,417 t) |
Length | 228 ft (69 m) |
Beam | 38 ft 5 in (11.71 m) |
Draft | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
Propulsion | Sail, with steam engine screw |
Speed | 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
Armament | 2 × 11 in (280 mm) smoothbore guns, 1 × 8 in (200 mm) smoothbore gun, 3 × 20-pounder rifles |
USS Canandaigua was a sloop-of-war which displaced 1,395 long tons (1,417 t), with steam engine screw, acquired by the Union Navy during the second year of the American Civil War. After the war, Canandaigua was retained and placed in operation in Europe and elsewhere.
With her heavy guns (three of them rifled) and speed of 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h), she was an ideal and successful gunboat in the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America.
Service history
Canandaigua—a screw sloop—was launched on March 28, 1862, by
CSS H. L. Hunley
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Canandaigua sailed for the
Norfolk Navy Yard
after November 8, 1875, she remained in ordinary until broken up in 1884.
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.