NAVYPEDIA

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
	Ashuelot		Donald McKay, Boston	1863	12.7.1865	4.4.1866	wrecked 18.2.1883
	Mohongo		Secor, Jersey City	1863	9.7.1864	23.5.1865	sold 11.1870
	Monocacy		Denmead, Baltimore	1863	14.12.1864	1866	sold 6.1903
	Muscoota		Continental Iron Wks, New York	1863	1864	5.1.1865	sold 1869
	Shamokin		Reany, Son & Archbold, Chester	1863	1864	17.10.1865	sold 1869
	Suwanee		Reany, Son & Archbold, Chester	1863	13.3.1864	23.1.1865	wrecked 9.7.1868
	Winnepec		Harrison Loring, Boston	1863	20.8.1864	1865	sold 1869

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1370
Displacement full, t
Length, m	77.7 wl
Breadth, m	10.7
Draught, m	2.74 mean
No of shafts	side-wheels
Machinery	1 HDA, 2 horizontal tubular boilers
Power, h. p.	850
Max speed, kts	11 - 12
Fuel, t	coal 224
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	4 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 2 x 1 - 163/22 Parrott RML, 2 x 1 - 148/12 24pdr Dahlgren howitzers, 2 x 1 - 93/22 20pdr Parrott RML
Complement	159 - 190

Standard scale images

Project history

'Double-enders' contracted for in June-July 1863. As with the wooden-hulled gunboats of this type, the Mohongo class were schooner-rigged, of very full section and were reported unsatisfactory at sea, though Ashuelot accompanied Miantonomoh to Europe and then proceeded to the Far East, and Mohongo navigated the Straits of Magellan in a severe gale.

Modernizations

1887, Monocacy: was armed with 4 x 1 - 203/14 Dahlgren SB, 2 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott RML, 8 smaller guns

Naval service

Ashuelot was lost 18.2.1833 on the Lamock rocks near Swatow, and Suwanee 9.7.1868 in Shadwell Passage, Queen Charlotte Sound, British Columbia. Monocacy, the last survivor of a class already obsolescent as paddle warships when laid down, took part in the Korean troubles of 1871 and the Chinese 'Yi Ho Tuan' rebellion of 1900.