The ''Canonicus''-class monitor was a
class of nine
monitors built for the
Union Navy
The Union Navy was the United States Navy (USN) during the American Civil War, when it fought the Confederate States Navy (CSN). The term is sometimes used carelessly to include vessels of war used on the rivers of the interior while they were und ...
during the
American Civil War
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. They saw service in the Civil War and the
Spanish–American War
, partof = the Philippine Revolution, the decolonization of the Americas, and the Cuban War of Independence
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, although two of them were never commissioned.
They were basically improved s, modified in accordance with war experience. The four ships not commissioned during the war were built on the
Ohio River, three at
Cincinnati
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, and ''Manayunk'' as far up as South
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...
.
Design
The hull lines were improved and designed speed is given as but there was no hope of getting near this. The side armour was backed by two iron stringers deep and thick for from the bows, but elsewhere, and the armour lower edge was . The
turret, of internal diameter, had plates as did the pilot house above, and the funnel base was also armored. The turret skirt was protected by a thick and high ring fixed to the deck, and as in other later monitors the 15 in guns were longer than in the ''Passaic'' class and fired with their muzzles outside the turret.
''Tecumseh'' was sunk during the
Battle of Mobile Bay
The Battle of Mobile Bay of August 5, 1864, was a naval and land engagement of the American Civil War in which a Union fleet commanded by Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, assisted by a contingent of soldiers, attacked a smaller Confederate fl ...
by a
mine. ''Canonicus'', the last survivor, was decommissioned 31 years before being sold. ''Catawba'' and ''Oneota'' were both sold to
Peru
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, other_symbol = Great Seal of the State
, other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal
, national_motto = "Fi ...
, on 2 April 1868, without ever entering service in the US Navy. Renamed by the
Peruvian Navy
The Peruvian Navy ( es, link=no, Marina de Guerra del Perú, abbreviated MGP) is the branch of the Peruvian Armed Forces tasked with surveillance, patrol and defense on lakes, rivers and the Pacific Ocean up to from the Peruvian littoral. Addit ...
as ''Atahualpa'' and ''Manco Capac'' respectively, they participated in the
War of the Pacific
The War of the Pacific ( es, link=no, Guerra del Pacífico), also known as the Saltpeter War ( es, link=no, Guerra del salitre) and by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought ...
, which lasted from 1879 to 1883.
Ships in class
See also
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List of ironclads
Notes
References
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Monitor classes
Spanish–American War monitors of the United States