Iroquois Class Sloop (1859)
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Two of the three Iroquois class sloops survived in U.S. Navy service into the 1880s, the third had been lost in 1870.
Overview of three vessels | |||||
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Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Fate |
Iroquois | New York NYd | Aug 1858 | 12 Apr, 1859 | 24 Nov, 1859 | Wrecked 26 Aug, 1910 Sold 5 Oct, 1910 |
Wachusett | Boston NYd | 10 Jun, 1861 | 10 Oct, 1861 | 3 Mar, 1862 | Sold 30 Jul, 1887 |
Oneida | New York NYd | 10 Jun, 1861 | 20 Nov, 1861 | 28 Feb, 1862 | Collision 24 Jan, 1870 |
Design & Construction
Hull designed by Benjamin F. Delano. Wachusett was one of three sloops ordered in February 1861 during the Secession Crisis.[1]
Performance
Armament
See individual articles.
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 64.
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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