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USS Ashuelot, circa 1874
History
United States
Name
Ashuelot
Ordered
June/July 1863
Builder
Donald McKay
Laid down
1864
Launched
22 July 1865
Commissioned
4 April 1866
Fate
Wrecked, 18 February 1883
General characteristics
Type
Gunboat
Displacement
1,370 long tons (1,392 t)
Length
225 ft (69 m)
Beam
35 ft (11 m)
Draft
9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion
Steam engine
Speed
8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Armament
4 × 8 in (200 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren gun
2 × 60-pounder Parrott rifles
2 × 24-pounder howitzers
2 × 20-pounder Parrott rifles
USS Ashuelot was an iron-hulled, double-ended, side-wheel Mohongo-class gunboat in the United States Navy. She was named for a river in New Hampshire.
The contract for the construction of Ashuelot was awarded in June or July 1863 to Donald McKay. Her keel was laid down at his shipyard in East Boston, Massachusetts, sometime in 1864; and the ship was launched on 22 July 1865. She was delivered to the Boston Navy Yard on 30 November of that year; but, since the American Civil War had recently ended, the Navy's need for her services had diminished. As a result, Ashuelot — which had been designed for operations in the shallow rivers and coastal waters of the Confederacy — was not placed in commission until 4 April 1866, Commander John C. Febiger in command.
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