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| USS Massachusetts |
| Monitor |
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| Originally named Passaconaway and then
Thunderer |
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| Passaconaway, a twin - turreted
Kalamazoo class monitor, started building at the Portsmouth Navy Yard,
Kittery, Maine, in November 1863. Her construction, and that of three sister
ships, proceeded slowly during the Cvil War, and she was neither launched
nor completed. Her name was changed to Thunderer 15 June 1869 and
then renamed Massachusetts while laid up in an unfinished condition
at the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire 10 August 1869. Never completed
and with deteriorating timbers, she was condemmed under Act of Congress 5
August 1882 and broken up in the stocks 1884. |
Bibliography
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James L. Mooney, Dictionary of American Naval
Fighting Ships, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office,
1969), Vol.4: L-M, p. 264 |
|
James L. Mooney, Dictionary of American Naval
Fighting Ships, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office,
1970), Vol.5: N-Q, p. 222 |
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