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USS Monadnock

USS Manadnock

USS Manadnock
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USS Monadnock
Namesake: Mount Monadnock, NH
Builder: Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA
Laid Down: 1862
Launched: 23 March 1863
Commissioned: 4 October 1864
Decommissioned: 30 June 1866
Fate: Scrapped, 1874
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Characteristics
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Class & Type: Miantonomoh-class monitor
Displacement: 3,295 long tons
Length: 259 ft 6 in.
Beam: 52 ft. 6 in.
Draft: 12 ft. 3 in.
Depth: 15 ft. 6 in.
Installed Power: 4 Martin water-tube boilers
1,400 ihp
Propulsion: 2 shafts; 2 vibrating-lever steam engines
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Armament
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4 x twin 15 in smoothbore Dahlgren guns
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Battles
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North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
1st Battle of Fort Fisher
2nd Battle of Fort Fisher
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron
Duty in the Pacific along California
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