USS Catawba (1864)

A lithograph of the monitor during her time in the Peruvian Navy as Atahualpa.
History
United States
Name	Catawba
Namesake	Catawba River
Ordered	10 September 1862
Builder	Alexander Swift & Company, Cincinnati, Ohio
Laid down	1862
Launched	13 April 1864
Completed	7 June 1865
Fate	Sold to builder, 13 April 1868
Peru
Name	Atahualpa
Namesake	Atahualpa
Acquired	2 April 1868
Commissioned	June 1870
Reclassified	As a storage hulk
Fate	Scuttled, 16 January 1881 and later salvaged Scrapped, early 1900s
General characteristics
Class and type	Canonicus-class monitor
Displacement	2,100 long tons (2,100 t)
Tons burthen	1,034 tons (bm)
Length	225 ft (69 m)
Beam	43 ft 3 in (13.18 m)
Draft	13 ft 6 in (4.1 m)
Installed power	320 ihp (240 kW) 4 × fire-tube boilers
Propulsion	1 × Propeller 1 × Ericsson Vibrating-lever steam engine
Speed	8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement	100 officers and enlisted men
Armament	2 × 15-inch (381 mm) Dahlgren smoothbore guns
Armor	Gun turret: 10 in (250 mm) Waterline belt: 5 in (130 mm) Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm) Pilot house: 10 in (250 mm)

USS Catawba was a single-turreted Canonicus-class monitor built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Completed shortly after the end of the war, Catawba was laid up until sold to her builders in 1868, and then resold to the Peruvian Navy. Renamed BAP Atahualpa, the ship participated in the defense of main port of Peru, Callao, during the War of the Pacific. When the city of Lima was taken by Chilean troops in 1881, she was scuttled to prevent her capture. Atahualpa was later refloated and used as a storage hulk until scrapped in the early 20th century.