Ossipee Class Sloop (1861)
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Two of the four Ossipee class sloops built during the Civil War were still in U.S. Navy service into the late nineteenth century.
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| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Fate |
| Ossipee | Portsmouth NYd | 6 Jun, 1861 | 16 Nov, 1861 | 6 Nov, 1862 | Sold 25 Mar, 1891 |
| Juniata | Philadelphia NYd | June 1861 | 29 Mar, 1862 | 4 Dec, 1862 | Sold 25 Mar, 1891 |
| Adirondack | New York NYd | 1861 | 22 Feb, 1862 | June 1862 | Wrecked 23 Aug, 1862 |
| Housatonic | Boston NYd | 1861 | 20 Nov, 1861 | 29 Aug, 1862 | Torpedoed 17 Feb, 1864[1] |
Design & Construction
The four Ossipees were part of a group of seven "steam screw sloops of war of the 2nd class of not over 14' draft" for oceangoing serivce authorized on 21 February, 1861 as the succession crisis grew ever more severe. The Ossipees were a new design with increased tonnage, beam, and draft over preceeding sloop designs. Their hull plans were by John Lenthall and their machinery was designed by Benjamin F. Isherwood.[2]
Performance
Armament
1884
- one 8-inch muzzle-loading rifle
- six 9-inch smoothbores
- one 60-pounder breech-loading rifle
- two 20-pounder breech-loading rifles (Juniata only)
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Housatonic was the unenviable distinction of being the first warship to be sunk by a submarine during wartime, in this case the Confederate H. L. Hunley, which was lost shortly after her successful attack on Housatonic.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 67.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 67.
Bibliography
- Bauer, K. Jack and Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. New York: Greenwood Press.
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: Civil War Navies, 1855-1883. New York: Routledge.
- Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.
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