NAVYPEDIA

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
	Galena		Norfolk N Yd	1872	1879	26.8.1880	stricken 2.1892
	Marion		Portsmouth N Yd	1872	1873	12.1.1876	Naval Militia TS 12.1897, stricken 3.1907
	Mohican		Mare Island N Yd	4.9.1872	27.12.1883	25.5.1885	TS 1898, station ship 2.1905
	Quinnebaug		Philadelphia N Yd	1872	28.9.1875	2.10.1878	stricken 11.1889
	Swatara		New York N Yd	1872	17.9.1873	11.5.1874	stricken 7.1896

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1900
Displacement full, t
Length, m	65.8 pp
Breadth, m	11.27
Draught, m	5.02 mean
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HCRCR, 10 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	800
Max speed, kts	10 - 11
Fuel, t	coal 160 - 185
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	Galena: 6 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 203/18 Dahlgren (converted) RML, 1 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott BL Marion: 1 x 1 - 279/15 Dahlgren SB, 6 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott RML Mohican: 8 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 203/18 Dahlgren (converted) RML, 1 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott RML Quinnebaug: 6 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 203/18 Dahlgren (converted) RML, 1 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott RML Swatara: 6 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 203/18 Dahlgren (converted) RML, 1 x 1 - 107/24 30pdr Parrott RML
Complement	212 - 230

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Project history

Ship- or barque-rigged vessels, Marion being usually considered a rebuild of the first Marion. Except for Galena and Mohican, the engines were conversions of those built for the cancelled ships of the Serapis (Alaska) class.

Modernizations

1887, all: were armed with 6 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 203/18 Dahlgren (converted) RML, 1 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott RML, 3 - 4 small guns

Naval service

Mohican was a training ship 1898-1904, then station ship at Olongapo and from 1910 to 1921 receiving ship at Cavite, serving also as a stationary submarine tender to the end of 1915.