The '''''Kalamazoo''-class monitors''' were a [[ship class|class]] of ocean-going [[ironclad]] [[Monitor (warship)|monitors]] begun during the [[American Civil War]]. Unfinished by the end of the war, their construction was suspended in November 1865 and the [[Wood drying|unseasoned wood]] of their hulls rotted while they were still on the building [[Stocks (shipyard)|stocks]]. If the four ships had been finished they would have been the most seaworthy monitors in the US Navy. One was [[ship breaking|scrapped]] in 1874 while the other three were disposed of a decade later.
