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Modoc
ex
 Achilles (1869)
 Modoc

Casco Class Light-draft Monitor:
  • Laid down, date unknown, by J.S. Underhill Greenpoint Long Island, N. Y.
  • Launched, 21 March 1865
  • Completed, 4 June 1865, at New York Iron Shipyard, New York, N.Y.
  • Modoc was never commissioned and saw no service
  • Renamed Achilles, 15 June 1869, then back to Modoc, 10 August 1869
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping in August 1875
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,175 t.
    Length 225'
    Beam 45'
    Depth of Hold 9' 1"
    Draft 6' 4"
    Speed 5.7 kts.
    Complement 60
    Armament
    one 11" Dahlgren smoothbore gun
    Propulsion steam
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    Modoc 125k The light draft river monitor Modoc just prior to launching, at the J.S. Underhill Shipyard, Greenpoint, Long Island, New York, 21 March 1865. Photographed by J.H. Beal & Company, New York. Note the extremely shallow hull of this "light draft" Casco class monitor, with propeller blades extending above the deck level.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 74243. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Wood Collection, 1971.    		 Robert Hurst
    Casco 167k Plan of the spar torpedo arrangement and platform designed for installation on the;
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    USS Modoc, circa 1864. The original drawing is in the records of the Bureau of Ships at the U.S. National Archives. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Photo # NH 55203.    		 Robert Hurst
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