USS Shakamaxon (1863)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | 4 November 1863 |
| Laid down: | 1863, as Shakamaxon |
| Suspended: | 30 November 1865 |
| Launched: | Never Launched |
| Commissioned: | Never Commissioned |
| Renamed: | 15 June 1869, as Hecla |
| Renamed: | 10 August 1869, as Nebraska |
| Fate: | Scrapped, March 1875 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5,660 tons |
| Length: | 345 ft |
| Beam: | 56 ft 8 in |
| Draft: | 17 ft 6 in |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine |
| Speed: | 10 knots |
| Armament: | 4 × 15 in Dahlgren smoothbore guns |
The USS Shakamaxon was a Kalamazoo-class double-turreted monitor, designed by Benjamin F. Delano. Shakamaxon was ordered on 4 November 1863 and laid down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard before the end of the year. Since the ship was still on the ways at the end of the American Civil War, work on her was suspended on 30 November 1865. She was renamed Hecla 15 June 1869 and again renamed Nebraska on 10 August 1869. Designed to be built at U.S. Navy naval yards, which lacked the facilities to construct metal-ribbed vessels, she was built with improperly seasoned timber, and left exposed to the elements. Shakamaxon's hull began to rot while still on the stocks and she was broken up on the ways between January 1874 and March 1875.
[edit] See also
- See USS Shakamaxon for other ships of this name.
- See USS Hecla for other ships of this name.
- See USS Nebraska for other ships of this name.
[edit] References
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
