| Career (United States) |  |
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| Name: | USS Mondamin |
| Ordered: | 1864 |
| Laid down: | Probably never |
| Launched: | Never |
| Fate: | Cancelled |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Contoocook-class sloop-of-war[1] or frigate[2] |
| Displacement: | 3,003 tons |
| Length: | 290 ft (88 m) (waterline) |
| Beam: | 41 ft (12 m) |
| Height: | 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) mean |
| Propulsion: | 4 Martin boilers (2 superheaters), 1-shaft, horizontal return connecting rod engine |
| Sail plan: | bark-rigged[1] or ship-rigged[2] |
| Speed: | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
| Complement: | 350 |
| Armament: |
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USS Mondamin was a proposed United States Navy screw sloop-of-war or steam frigate proposed in the 1860s that was cancelled.
Mondamin was a wooden-hulled bark-rigged[1] (or ship-rigged[2]) Contoocook-class screw sloop-of-war[1] or steam frigate[2] with a single funnel slated to be built for the Union Navy late in the American Civil War. The contract for her construction was cancelled.
References[]
- Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships has no entry for Mondamin, but refers to all members of her class as sloops.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Per Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905, p. 125, whether she would have considered a sloop or frigate depended on whether or not she would have been built with a spar deck, without which she have been a sloop, but it is unknown whether she would have had a spar deck or not because she was never built and because her completed sisters differed in this regard.
- Bibliography
- Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. New York: Mayflower Books, Inc. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
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