 Engraving of Kalamazoo
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Kalamazoo class |
| Operators |  United States Navy |
| Preceded by | Miantonomoh class |
| Succeeded by | USS Puritan |
| Built | 1863–65 |
| Planned | 4 |
| Completed | 0 |
| Scrapped | 4 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Monitor |
| Displacement | 5,600 long tons (5,700 t) |
| Tons burthen | 3,200 (bm) |
| Length | 345 ft 5 in (105.3 m) |
| Beam | 56 ft 8 in (17.3 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft 6 in (5.3 m) |
| Installed power | |
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| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Armament | 2 × 2 - 15-inch (381 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns |
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The Kalamazoo-class monitors were a class of ocean-going ironclad monitors begun during the American Civil War. Unfinished by the end of the war, their construction was suspended in November 1865 and the unseasoned wood of their hulls rotted while they were still on the building stocks. If the four ships had been finished they would have been the most seaworthy monitors in the US Navy. One was scrapped in 1874 while the other three were disposed of a decade later.