Kalamazoo-class monitor: Difference between revisions

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

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

|Built range=1863–65

|Total ships planned=4

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! align=center |Ship

! align=center|Builder<ref name=s9/>

! align=center|Namesake

! align=center|Renamed<ref name=s9/>

! align=center|Laid down<ref name=s9/>

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|''Kalamazoo''

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|align=center|''Hercules'', 15 June 1869; ''Oregon'', 10 August 1869

|align=center|15 April 1864

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|''Shackamaxon''{{#tag:ref|Also spelled ''Shakamaxon''.<ref name=sd>{{cite DANFS | title = Shakamaxon | url = http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s10/shakamaxon.htm | accessdate =1 January 2013 }}</ref>|group=Note}}

|align=center|[[Philadelphia Naval Shipyard]], [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]

|align=center|[[Shackamaxon]]<ref>Silverstone 1984, p. 479</ref>

|align=center|''Hecla'', 15 June 1869; ''Nebraska'', 10 August 1869

|align=center|late 1863

|align=center|January 1874<ref name=sd/>

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==Construction and fate==

Construction began on the ships in late 1863 and early 1864 and they were still building 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 new several new ship naming conventions. [[Vice Admiral]] [[David Dixon Porter|David D. Porter]] ordered that ''Colossus'' be rebuilt to carry 10 large 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 | accessdate =1 January 2013 }}</ref>

Passaconaway's hull began to rot while still on the stocks and on 5 August 1882 she was condemned under an Act of Congress. She was finally broken up in 1884.

==Notes==