U.S.S. Onondaga
1864
(Aquarius AQ-S-21)
- Class: Onondaga - 1 monitor of 1862
- Displacement: 2,592 tons
- Dimensions: 226' x 49'3" x 12'10"
- Machinery: 2 screws, 4 horizontal back-acting engines,
4 boilers; IHP 642 = 7 knots
- Armor: 11.75" turret, 5.5" sides, 1" deck
- Armament: 2-15" smoothbore guns, 2-150 pdr. rifles
- Complement: 130
- Builder: Continental (Delamater)
- Laid down: 1862
- Launched: 29 Jul 1863
- Commissioned: 25 Mar 1864
- Notes: Built under contract by her designer G. W. Quintard. Iron hull with two turrets. Returned to Qunitard 1867.
- Service: James River flotilla 1864-65. Engagements at Howletts, Trents Reach, Virginia, 21 Jun 1864 and at Dutch Gap, Virginia, 13 Aug and 16-18 Aug 1864. Engaged battery at Howletts Farm 29 Nov and 5-6 Dec 1864. Engagement at Trents Reach 24 Jan 1865 against CSS Virgina II, Richmond,
and Fredericksburg, forcing them to retire. Decommissioned 8 Jun 1865. Sold to France 2 Mar 1867.
Broken up 1903.
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