Monocacy 1900
| No | Name | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| Ashuelot | Donald McKay, Boston | 1863 | 12.7.1865 | 4.4.1866 | wrecked 18.2.1883 | ||
| Mohongo | Secor, Jersey City | 1863 | 9.7.1864 | 23.5.1865 | sold 11.1870 | ||
| Monocacy | Denmead, Baltimore | 1863 | 14.12.1864 | 1866 | sold 6.1903 | ||
| Muscoota | Continental Iron Wks, New York | 1863 | 1864 | 5.1.1865 | sold 1869 | ||
| Shamokin | Reany, Son & Archbold, Chester | 1863 | 1864 | 17.10.1865 | sold 1869 | ||
| Suwanee | Reany, Son & Archbold, Chester | 1863 | 13.3.1864 | 23.1.1865 | wrecked 9.7.1868 | ||
| Winnepec | Harrison Loring, Boston | 1863 | 20.8.1864 | 1865 | sold 1869 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1370 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
77.7 wl |
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Breadth, m |
10.7 |
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Draught, m |
2.74 mean |
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No of shafts |
side-wheels |
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Machinery |
1 HDA, 2 horizontal tubular boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
850 |
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Max speed, kts |
11 - 12 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 224 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
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Armament |
4 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 2 x 1 - 163/22 Parrott RML, 2 x 1 - 148/12 24pdr Dahlgren howitzers, 2 x 1 - 93/22 20pdr Parrott RML |
| Complement |
159 - 190 |
Project history: 'Double-enders' contracted for in June-July 1863. As with the wooden-hulled gunboats of this type, the Mohongo class were schooner-rigged, of very full section and were reported unsatisfactory at sea, though Ashuelot accompanied Miantonomoh to Europe and then proceeded to the Far East, and Mohongo navigated the Straits of Magellan in a severe gale.
Modernizations: 1887, Monocacy: was armed with 4 x 1 - 203/14 Dahlgren SB, 2 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott RML, 8 smaller guns
Naval service: Ashuelot was lost 18.2.1833 on the Lamock rocks near Swatow, and Suwanee 9.7.1868 in Shadwell Passage, Queen Charlotte Sound, British Columbia. Monocacy, the last survivor of a class already obsolescent as paddle warships when laid down, took part in the Korean troubles of 1871 and the Chinese 'Yi Ho Tuan' rebellion of 1900.
© Ivan Gogin, 2014