USS Modoc (1865)
Torpedo boat of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Modoc and USS Achilles.
USS Modoc, a single turret, an 1,175-ton Casco-class light draft monitor built under contract by J. S. Underhill at Greenpoint, Brooklyn, was completed as a spar torpedo vessel in June 1865. She had no active service, spending her entire Navy career laid up "in ordinary" at Philadelphia. The vessel was renamed Achilles on 15 June 1869, but returned to Modoc on 10 August. The ship was broken up at New York in August 1875.
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Name | USS Modoc |
Ordered | April 1863 |
Builder | J.S. Underhill, Greenpoint, Brooklyn |
Launched | June 1865 |
Commissioned | Never commissioned |
Fate | Broken up, August 1875 |
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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 (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
Complement | 71 officers and enlisted |
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