USS Kalamazoo
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| USS Kalamazoo | |
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Career | |
| Type and class | Double-turreted ironclad monitor Kalamazoo-class |
| Authorized | 1863 |
| Shipyard | New York Navy Yard Brooklyn, New York |
| Keel laid | 1863 |
| Launched | n/a |
| Commissioned | n/a |
| Fate | Broken up, 1884 |
| Specifications | |
| Length | 345 feet |
| Beam | 56 feet 6 inches |
| Draft | 17 feet 6 inches |
| Displacement | 5,660 tons |
| Propulsion | Two steam engines Twin screw propellers |
| Speed | 10 knots |
| Armament | Four 15-inch Dahlgren smoothbores (planned) |
| Compliment | 100 officers and men (est.) |
Kalamazoo, a double turreted monitor, was laid down in 1863 at New York Navy Yard. A larger version of the Miantonomoh class, she had slightly-better freeboard (approx. 45 inches), better lines, and was more adapt at sea keeping than previous versions. Work on the monitor was suspended 27 November 1865 and was never resumed. The unfinished ship was renamed Colossus on 15 June 1869, but she was never launched nor commissioned. While awaiting word as to her status the builders allowed her wooden hull to rot, and she was eventually broken up on the stocks in 1884.
Part of the text is incorporated from the United States Navy's Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, a work in the public domain.
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