USS Koka (1865)
Twin-screw monitor of the US Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Koka.
USS Koka—a single-turreted, twin-screw monitor—was launched 18 May 1865 by Wilcox & Whiting, Camden, New Jersey. She was a Casco-class, light-draft monitor intended for service in the shallow bays, rivers, and inlets of the Confederacy. These warships sacrificed armor plate for a shallow draft and were fitted with a ballast compartment designed to lower them in the water during battle.
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Name | USS Koka |
Ordered | April 1863 |
Builder | Wilcox & Whiting, Camden, New Jersey. |
Launched | 18 May 1865 |
Commissioned | Never commissioned |
Fate | Broken up, 2 October 1874 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Casco-class monitor |
Displacement | 1,175 long tons (1,194 t) |
Length | 225 ft (69 m) |
Beam | 45 ft (14 m) |
Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Propulsion | Screw steamer |
Speed | 9 knots (10 mph; 17 km/h) |
Complement | 69 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 2 × 11 in (280 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns |
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