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Ships
of the
U.S. Navy

Post Civil War & The New Navy
1865-1890

INDEX - 1865-70 - 1870-75 - 1875-82 - 1883 - 1883-90 - - TOP

*1865-1870*
*Additions:*
Ship	Type			Tonnage	Notes
Alaska	Algoma-class gunboat			2400
Pmaha	Algoma-class gunboat			2400
Plymouth	Algoma-class gunboat			2400

*Losses:*
Ship		Tonnage	Notes
New Ironsides		4120	Burned at dock, 1866
Sacramento		2100	Wrecked, mouth of Godavery River, India, 1867
Oneida		1488	Sunk in collision, Japan, 1870
Sold out of service: Albemarle, Texas, Onesta, Catawba, Maumee, Atlanta, Mohongo.

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*1870-1875*
*Additions:*
Ship	Type			Tonnage	Notes
Galena	Wooden gunboat			1900	Rebuilt old ship
Mohican	Wooden gunboat			1900	Rebuilt old ship
Marion	Wooden gunboat			1900	Rebuilt old ship
Quinnebaug	Wooden gunboat			1900	Rebuilt old ship
Swatara	Wooden gunboat			1900	Rebuilt old ship
Vandalia	Wooden gunboat			1900	Rebuilt old ship
Alex	Small iron gunboat			1020	Rebuilt old ship
Huron	Small iron gunboat			1020	Rebuilt old ship
Ranger	Small iron gunboat			1020	Rebuilt old ship
Adams	Small wooden gunboat			1375	Rebuilt old ship
Alliance	Small wooden gunboat			1375	Rebuilt old ship
Enterprise	Small wooden gunboat			1375	Rebuilt old ship
Essex	Small wooden gunboat			1375	Rebuilt old ship
Nipsic	Small wooden gunboat			1375	Rebuilt old ship
Trenton	Wooden frigate			3200
Alarm	Wooden torpedo ram			800
Intrepid	Wooden torpedo ram			1150
Monadnock	Double-turret seagoing monitor			3090	Rebuilt old ship
Amphitrite	Double-turret seagoing monitor			3090	Rebuilt old ship
Miantonomah	Double-turret seagoing monitor			3090	Rebuilt old ship
Terror	Double-turret seagoing monitor			3090	Rebuilt old ship
Puritan	Double-turret seagoing monitor			3090	Rebuilt old ship

*Losses:*
Ship		Tonnage	Notes
Saginaw			Wrecked, Ocean Island, 1871
Idaho		3241	Wrecked off coast of Japan, 1874
Sold out of service or broken up: Galena, Mohican, Marion, Quinnebaug, Swatara, Vandalia, Chattanooga, Guerrière, Illinois,Java, New York (ex-Ontario), Albany (ex-Contocook), Nantasket, Marietta, Sandusky, Neosho, Miantonomoh, Resaca, Agamenticus, Chicksaw, Keewaydin (ex-Kickapoo), Winnebago, Shackamaxon, Etlah, Klamath, Koka, Shawnee, Shiloh, Squando, Suncook, Tunxis, Umpqua, Wassuc, Adams, Yazoo, Nipsic, Monadnock, Amphitrite (ex-Tonawanda), Puritan, Casco, Chimo, Cohoes, Modoc, Napa, Nausett, Warsaw, Pennsylvania (ex-Keewaydin), California (ex-Minnetonka).

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*1875-1882*
*Additions: (none)*

*Losses:*
Ship	Tonnage	Notes
Huron		Wrecked in Pacific, 1877
Sold out of service or broken upNevada (ex-Neshaminy), Naubuc, Severn (ex-Mosholu), Spuyten Duyvil.

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*1883 -- The New Navy*
All the old ships still surviving, except Constitution and Constellation and some of the Ericsson monitors (which lasted until after the Spanish American War) were sold out of service.
*Ships Laid Down:*
Ship	Class	Tonnage	Speed (knots)	Built at	Armament (TT=torpedo tubes, AA=anti-aircraft)
Atlanta	Protected cruiser	3000	15	Philadelphia	2-8”, 6-6”
Boston	Protected cruiser	3000	15	Philadelphia	2-8”, 6-6”
Chicago	Protected cruiser	4500	14	Philadelphia	4-8”, 8-6”
Dolphin	Dispatch boat	1485	13	Philadelphia	1-6”
All completed 1885-86.

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*1883-1890*
*Ships Laid Down:*
Ship	Class	Tonnage	Speed (knots)	Armor (D=deck, T= turrets, B=belt)	Armament (TT=torpedo tubes, AA=anti-aircraft)
Newark	Protected cruiser	4098	19	3”D/2”T	12-6”
San Francisco	Protected cruiser	4098	19.5	3”D/2”T	12-6”
Baltimore	Protected cruiser	4600	20.2	4”D/3”T	10-6”
Charleston	Protected cruiser	4600	19	4”D/3”T	10-6”
Vesuvius	Dynamite gun ship	930	21	None	3 pneumatic dynamite guns
Petrel	Gunboat	800	12	None	4-6”
Yorktown	Gunboat	1200	14	None	6-6”
Bennington	Gunboat	1200	14	None	6-6”
Concord	Gunboat	1200	14	None	6-6”
Cushing	Torpedo boat	?	22	None	3 TT
Philadelphia	Protected cruiser	4324	19.7	4”D/3”T	12-6”
Maine	Armored cruiser	6648	17	11”B/10½”T	4-10”, 6-6”
Texas	Armored cruiser	6500	17	12”B/12”T/3”D	2-12”, 6-6”
Monterey	Monitor	4084	13	13”B/14”T/3”D	2-12”, 2-10”
New York*	Armored cruiser	8200	21	4”B/6”D/7”T	6-8”, 12-4”
Olympia	Raiding cruiser	5870	21	4¾”D/4”T	4-8”, 10-5”
Cincinnati	Protected cruiser	3213	19	2½”D/4”T	11-5”
Raleigh	Protected cruiser	3213	19	2½”D/4”T	11-5”
Detroit	Protected cruiser	2000	17	2”T	9-5”
Montgomery	Protected cruiser	2000	17	2”T	9-5”
Marblehead	Protected cruiser	2000	17	2”T	9-5”
Columbia	Raiding cruiser	7450	23	4”D/3”T	1-8”, 2-6”, 8-4”
All ships completed by1892. *Renamed Saratoga in 1912 and Rochester in 1919.

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