History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Mohongo |
Builder | Zeno Secor & Co., Jersey City, New Jersey |
Laid down | 1863 |
Launched | 9 July 1864 |
Commissioned | 23 May 1865 |
Decommissioned | 29 May 1869 |
Fate | Sold, 17 November 1870 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Gunboat |
Displacement | 1,034 long tons (1,051 t) |
Length | 255 ft (78 m) |
Beam | 35 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 190 |
Armament |
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USS Mohongo, an iron‑hulled, schooner‑rigged gunboat, was laid down at New York City by Zeno Secor & Co., Jersey City, N.J., in 1863; launched on 9 July 1864; and commissioned at New York Navy Yard on 23 May 1865, Capt. J. W. A. Nicholson in command.