Iroquois Class Sloop (1859)
From The Dreadnought Project
Two of the three Iroquois class sloops which entered service between 1859 and 1862 survived in U.S. Navy service into the 1880s, Oneida having been lost in 1870.
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| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Fate |
| Iroquois | New York NYd | Aug 1858 | 12 Apr, 1859 | 24 Nov, 1859 | Wrecked 26 Aug, 1910 Sold 5 Oct, 1910 |
| Wachusett | Boston NYd | 10 Jun, 1861 | 10 Oct, 1861 | 3 Mar, 1862 | Sold 30 Jul, 1887 |
| Oneida | New York NYd | 10 Jun, 1861 | 20 Nov, 1861 | 28 Feb, 1862 | Collision 24 Jan, 1870 |
Design & Construction
Hull designed by Benjamin F. Delano. Wachusett was one of three sloops ordered in February 1861 during the Secession Crisis.[1]
Performance
Armament
See individual ship articles.
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 64.
Bibliography
- Bauer, K. Jack and Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. New York: Greenwood Press.
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: Civil War Navies, 1855-1883. New York: Routledge.
- Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.
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