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Algonquin


Sassacus Class Sidewheel Gunboat:
  • Laid Down, date unknown, at New York Navy Yard
  • Launched, 21 December 1863
  • Failed trials due to poor machinery, never commissioned
  • Sold, 21 October 1869
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 974 t.
    Length 205'
    Beam 35'
    Depth 11' 6"
    Draft 9' (loaded)
    Speed 14.5 kts
    Complement 145
    Armament
    two 100-pdr Parrott rifles
    four 9" Dahlgren smoothbores
    two 24-pdr howitzer rifles
    one 12-pdr rifle
    one heavy 12-pdr smoothbores
    Propulsion steam
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    Algonquin
    30080307
    197k
    Namesake
    Algonquin - The Algonquin people are an Indigenous people of Eastern Canada.
    Photo - Algonquin Couple, an 18th-century watercolor by an unknown artist. Courtesy of the City of Montreal Records Management & Archives, Montreal, Canada. (Wikipedia)
    Map - Algonquin territory circa 1800 in green (Wikipedia Commons[[File:Anishinaabe-Anishinini Distribution Map.svg|Anishinaabe-Anishinini Distribution Map]])
    Tommy Trampp
    Sassacus (I)
    098635505
    85k Generic lithograph representing the Sassacus-class gunboats.
    Wikipedia
    John Spivey
    Algonquin
    098639502
    138k USS Winooski and Algonquin moored at the foot of Delancy Street on the East River in New York City, 1865.
    From an 1865 Harpers Publication.
    Tommy Trampp
    Algonquin 98k The start of the Naval race between USS Winooski and Algonquin, at New York, 13 February 1866. The race was conducted to determine the relative merits of their machinery. Sketched by B.S. Osbon.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 57269.
    Robert Hurst

    Algonquin
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