USS Camanche (1864)
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 The USS Camanche off Mare Island, during the Spanish-American War |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Launched: | 14 November 1864 |
| Commissioned: | May 1865 |
| Decommissioned: | 1898 |
| Fate: | sold, 22 March 1899 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,335 tons |
| Length: | 200 ft (61 m) |
| Beam: | 46 ft (14 m) |
| Draft: | 11 ft 6 in (3.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | Screw Steamer |
| Speed: | 7 knots (13 km/h) |
| Complement: | 76 |
| Armament: | 2 × 15 in (380 mm) Dahlgren smoothbore guns |
| Armour: | • 11 in (28 cm) turret, • 8 in (20 cm) pilothouse, • 5 in (13 cm) hull, • 1 in (3 cm) deck |
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[edit] History
USS Camanche, a 1335-ton Passaic-class monitor, was prefabricated at Jersey City, N.J. by Secor Brothers, Co. Her materials were then disassembled and shipped around Cape Horn in the sailing ship Aquila to San Francisco, Calif., where Aquila sank on 14 November 1863. The monitor's parts were salvaged and assembled at San Francisco and she was launched 14 November 1864 Camanche went into commission in May 1865, Lieutenant Commander C. J. McDougal in command.
Commissioned just after the end of the Civil War, for more than a year, until the arrival of the larger twin-turret monitor Monadnock, Camanche was the United States Navy's only ironclad warship on the Pacific coast, and she was one of but two stationed there for nearly 25 years.
Camanche's career was a quiet one, with the ship generally maintained in decommissioned status at the Mare Island Navy Yard, in northern San Francisco Bay. She was the California Naval Militia's training ship in 1896–97 and appears to have been reactivated for a few months in 1898, during the Spanish-American War for coastal defense purposes. USS Camanche was sold 22 March 1899, but photographic evidence indicates that she remained in the San Francisco area for several years after that.
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[edit] See also
See USS Camanche for other ships of this name.
[edit] References
- This article contains text from the US Naval Historical Center.
- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
[edit] External links
| Passaic-class monitor |
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Passaic | Montauk | Nahant | Patapsco | Weehawken | Sangamon | Catskill | Nantucket | Lehigh | Camanche |
| List of monitors of the United States Navy |
