Namesake: Saugus, MA

Builder: Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington, DE

Laid Down: 1862

Launched: 16 December 1863

Commissioned: 7 April 1864

Decommissioned: 13 June 1865

Recommissioned: 30 April 1869

Renamed: USS Centaur, 15 June 1869

Renamed: USS Saugus 10 August 1869

Decommissioned: 31 December 1870

Recommissioned: 9 November 1872

Decommissioned: 9 March 1874

Recommissioned: 10 October 1874

Decommissioned: 8 October 1877

Fate: Sold, 15 May 1877

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Characteristics

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Class & Type: Canonicus-class monitor

Displacement: 2,100 long tons

Length: 223 ft.

Beam: 43 ft. 4 in.

Draft: 13 ft. 6 in.

Installed power: 320 ihp 

2 x Stimers fire-tube boilers

Propulsion: 1 x Propeller

1 x Vibrating-lever steam engine

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