Denmead was a

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, United States, company that produced about 30

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s in the 1850s as a sideline to a very successful

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. During the

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, A & W Denmead & Son built the side wheel gunboat ''Monocacy'' and the light draft monitor ''Waxsaw'', both completed in 1865.
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'. United States, Navy Department, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division, 1959. 417.

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