USS Squando
1865 American warship / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Squando was a Casco-class light draft monitor built during the American Civil War. Designed for service in rivers, the class required design changes due to the lack of seaworthiness of the first Casco-class vessel. Squando required her deck to be raised 22 inches (56 cm) before completion in order to provide more freeboard. Launched in late December 1864 or early January 1865, she was commissioned on June 6, 1865. Completed after the American Civil War had wound down, she served in the North Atlantic Squadron in 1865 and 1866 before being decommissioned in May of the latter year. After being renamed twice in 1869, she was sold in 1874 and then broken up.
A rough color sketch of USS Squando at Charleston, SC, in December 1865. | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Squando |
Builder | McKay & Aldus, East Boston, Massachusetts |
Launched | December 31, 1864 or January 6, 1865 |
Completed | March 30, 1865 |
Commissioned | June 6, 1865 |
Decommissioned | May 26, 1866 |
Fate | Broken up, 1874 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Casco-class monitor |
Displacement | 1,175 or 1,618 tons |
Length | 225 ft (69 m) |
Beam | 45 ft (14 m) |
Draft | 8.3 ft (2.5 m) or 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Propulsion |
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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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