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Five Swatara class sloops were completed for the U.S. Navy from 1874 to 1885.
Overview of five vessels | |||||
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Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Fate |
Swatara | New York NYd | 1872 | 17 Sep, 1873 | 11 May, 1874 | Sold 2 Nov, 1896 |
Marion | Portsmouth NYd | 1872 | 22 Dec, 1873 | 12 Jan, 1876 | Sold 24 Jul, 1907 |
Quinnebaug | Philadelphia NYd | 1872 | 28 Sep, 1875 | 2 Oct, 1878 | Sold 25 Mar, 1891 |
Galena | Norfolk NYd | 1872 | 13 Mar, 1879 | 26 Aug, 1880 | Sold 9 May, 1892 |
Mohican | Mare Island NYd | 4 Sep, 1872 | 27 Dec, 1883 | 25 May, 1885 | Sold 4 Mar, 1922 |
Design & Construction
All five were officially described as "repairs" of older ships, a traditional method used to fund new ships without the troublesome business of asking a Congress hostile of military spending to authorize new warships.[1]
Performance
Armament
Varied. See individual articles.
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 71.
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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