USS Casco (1864)
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The first USS Casco was the first of a class of twenty 1,175-ton light-draft monitors built by Atlantic Works, Boston, Massachusetts for the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
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USS Casco on the James River, Virginia, 1865, while serving as a spar torpedo vessel. Note the torpedo gear mounted on her bow and the 11-inch (279 mm) Dahlgren smoothbore gun pivot-mounted on deck. | |
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United States | |
Name | Casco |
Ordered | April 1863 |
Builder | Atlantic Works, Boston |
Cost | $500,000 |
Launched | May 1864 |
Commissioned | 4 December 1864 |
Decommissioned | 10 June 1865 |
Renamed | Hero |
Refit | To spar torpedo vessel, June 1864 |
Fate | Broken up, April 1875 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Casco-class light draft monitor |
Displacement | 1,175 |
Length | 225 ft (69 m) |
Beam | 45 ft (14 m) |
Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Propulsion | Steam engine, twin screws |
Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h) |
Complement | 69 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 1 × 11-inch (280 mm) Dahlgren smoothbore cannon, 1 x spar torpedo |
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