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Suncook

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Civil War Medal
Casco Class Light-draft Monitor:
  • Laid down, date unknown, as the light draft monitor Suncook at Globe Iron Works, South Boston, MA.
  • Delivered, 8 July 1865 at Boston Navy Yard
  • Suncook found to be unseaworthy due to faulty design
  • Laid up at Philadelphia Navy Yard from 1866 to 1874
  • Name changed to Spitfire, 15 June 1869
  • Name reverted to Suncook, 10 August 1869
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, broken up at Philadelphia in July 1874 and sold
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,175 t.
    Length 225'
    Beam 45'
    Draft 9' 1"
    Speed 9kts
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    two Dahlgren smoothbore guns
    Propulsion steam
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