.jpg) Agamenticus shortly after her completion in 1865
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Agamenticus |
| Namesake | Mount Agamenticus |
| Builder | Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine |
| Laid down | 1862 |
| Launched | 19 March 1863 |
| Commissioned | 5 May 1865 |
| Decommissioned | 10 June 1872 |
| Renamed | Terror, 15 June 1869 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1874 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Miantonomoh-class monitor |
| Displacement | 3,295 long tons (3,348 t) |
| Length | 261 ft (79.6 m) (o/a) |
| Beam | 52 ft (15.8 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft 3 in (3.7 m) |
| Depth | 15 ft 6 in (4.7 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 vibrating-lever steam engines |
| Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
| Complement | 150 officers and enlisted men |
| Armament | 2 × twin 15 in (381 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns |
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USS Agamenticus was one of four Miantonomoh-class monitors built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Commissioned as the war was ending in May 1865, the ironclad saw no combat and was decommissioned in September and placed in reserve. The ship was reactivated in 1870, having been renamed Terror the previous year, and was assigned to the North Atlantic Fleet where she served in the Caribbean Sea. The monitor was decommissioned again in 1872 and was sold for scrap two years later. The Navy Department evaded the Congressional refusal to order new ships by claiming that the Civil War-era ship was being repaired while building a new monitor of the same name.