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|Name=''Kalamazoo'' class

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|Class before={{sclass|Miantonomoh|monitor|4}}

|Class after={{USS|Puritan|BM-1|6}}

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==Construction and fate==

Construction of the ships began between late 1863 and early 1864 and they were still being built when the war ended in early 1865. Construction was suspended on all four on 17 November 1865; they remained on the stocks. The ships were renamed, usually twice, in 1869 to conform to several new ship naming conventions. [[Vice Admiral]] [[David Dixon Porter|David D. Porter]] ordered that ''Colossus'' be rebuilt to carry 10 large [[Broadside (naval)|broadside]] guns and fitted with iron [[mast (sailing)|masts]] in a [[ship rig]], but this never happened. The unseasoned wood in their hulls quickly began to rot after construction was suspended and they were broken up beginning in 1874.<ref name=c5/> Unusually, ''Passaconaway'' was condemned by an Act of Congress on 5 August 1882 before she was finally broken up in 1884.<ref>{{cite DANFS | title = Passaconaway | url = http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p2/passaconaway-i.htm | access-date =1 January 2013 }}</ref>

==Notes==

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==External links==

{{Portal|American Civil War}}

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040302103255/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/k1/kalamazoo.htm] [[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]] entry on ''Kalamazoo''

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040314020402/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p2/passaconaway-i.htm] [[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]] entry on ''Passaconaway''

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040317224335/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/q1/quinsigamond.htm] [[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]] entry on ''Quinsigamond''

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040314163215/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s10/shakamaxon.htm] [[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]] entry on ''Shackamaxon''

{{Union ironclads}}

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[[Category:Cancelled ships of the United States Navy]]

[[Category:1860s ships]]

[[Category:Monitor classes]]

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