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Mahopac on the Appomattox River, 1864
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Class overview | |
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Preceded by | Passaic class |
Succeeded by | Monadnock class |
In commission | 1864–1898 |
Completed | 9 |
Lost | 3 |
Scrapped | 6 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Monitor |
Displacement | 2,100 long tons (2,100 t) |
Tons burthen | 1,034 tons (bm) |
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Propulsion | |
Speed | 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
Complement | 85 officers and enlisted men |
Armament | 2 × 15-inch (381 mm) Dahlgren smoothbore guns |
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The Canonicus-class monitor was a class of nine monitors built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. They saw service in the Civil War and the Spanish–American War, although two of them were never commissioned.
They were basically improved Passaics, modified in accordance with war experience. The four ships not commissioned during the war were built on the Ohio River, three at Cincinnati, and Manayunk as far up as South Pittsburgh.