Kalamazoo (monitor)
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| Career |
|
| Name: |
Kalamazoo |
| Builder: |
New York Navy Yard |
| Laid down: |
1863 |
| Renamed: |
Colossus, 15 June 1869 |
| Fate: |
Scrapped, 1884 |
| General characteristics |
| Type: |
Kalamazoo-class double-turreted monitor |
| Displacement: |
6,160 long tons (6,259 t) |
| Length: |
345 ft (105 m) |
| Beam: |
56 ft 8 in (17.27 m) |
| Draft: |
17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) |
| Propulsion: |
Steam engine |
| Speed: |
19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Armament: |
None |
Kalamazoo was the lead ship of the Kalamazoo-class double-turreted monitors, designed by Benjamin F. Delano. Kalamazoo was laid down by the New York Navy Yard in 1863, but work on her was suspended on 27 November 1865 following the end of the American Civil War. She was renamed Colossus on 15 June 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. Colossus's hull began to rot while still on the stocks and she was broken up in 1884.
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.