Builder: Harrison Loring, Boston, Mass.

Laid Down: 1862

Launched: 1 August 1863

Commissioned: 16 April 1864

Decommissioned: 30 June 1869

Renamed: Scylla, 15 June 1869

Canonicus, 10 August 1869

Recommissioned: 22 January 1872

Decommissioned: 1877

Fate: Sold, 19 February 1908

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Characteristics

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Class & Type: Canonicus-class monitor

Displacement: 2,100 long tons

Tons: 1,034 tons

Length: 224 ft.

Beam: 43 ft. 4 in.

Draft: 13 ft. 6 in.

Installed Power: 320 hp

2 x Stimers fire-tube boilers

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