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Cohoes (I)
ex
 Charybdis (1869)
 Cohoes (I) (1865 - 1869)

Casco Class Light-draft Monitor:
  • Built in 1864-65 at Continental Iron Works Brooklyn, New York
  • Launched, 31 May 1865
  • Completed, 19 January 1866, never commissioned
  • Laid up at League Island, PA., from 1867 until sold in July 1874,
  • Name changed to Charybdis, 15 June 1869, and back to Cohoes 19 August 1869
  • Final Disposition, Sold for scrapping in July 1874
    Specifications:
    Displacement 614 t.
    Length 225'
    Beam 37'
    Depth of Hold 9' 1"
    Draft 6' 6"
    Speed unknown
    Complement 69
    Armament
    one 11" Dahlgren smoothbore gun
    Propulsion steam
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