USS Milwaukee (1864)

Milwaukee with a mine rake attached to her bow
History
United States
Name	USS Milwaukee
Namesake	Milwaukee
Laid down	1864
Launched	4 February 1864
Commissioned	27 August 1864
Fate	Sunk by a mine, 28 March 1865, raised and scrapped 1868
General characteristics
Class and type	Milwaukee-class monitor
Displacement	1,300 long tons (1,300 t)
Tons burthen	970 bm
Length	229 ft (69.8 m)
Beam	56 ft (17.1 m)
Draft	6 ft (1.8 m)
Installed power	7 × Tubular boilers
Propulsion	4 × Shafts 2 × Non-condensing steam engines
Speed	9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Complement	138
Armament	2 × twin 11-inch (279 mm) Smoothbore Dahlgren guns
Armor	Gun turrets: 8 in (203 mm) Side: 3 in (76 mm) Deck: .75–1.5 in (19–38 mm) Conning tower: 3 in (76 mm)

The first USS Milwaukee, a double-turreted Milwaukee-class river monitor, the lead ship of her class, built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. The ship supported Union forces during the Mobile Campaign as they attacked Confederate fortifications defending the city of Mobile, Alabama in early 1865. She struck a mine in March and sank without loss. Her wreck was raised in 1868 and broken up for scrap that was used in the construction of a bridge in St. Louis, Missouri.