USS Catskill (1862)
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USS Catskill in 1898 while on coastal defense duty during the Spanish–American War.
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| Name: | USS Catskill |
| Builder: | Continental Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 1862 |
| Launched: | December 16, 1862 |
| Commissioned: | February 24, 1863 |
| Decommissioned: | September 22, 1898 |
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| Fate: | sold, December 4, 1901 |
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| Class and type: | Passaic-class ironclad monitor |
| Displacement: | 1,335 long tons (1,356 t) |
| Length: | 200 ft (61 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 46 ft (14 m) |
| Draft: | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
| Installed power: | 320 ihp (240 kW) |
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| Speed: | 7 kn (8.1 mph; 13 km/h) |
| Complement: | 87 |
| Armament: | 1 × 15 in (380 mm) smoothbore gun, 1 × 11 in (280 mm) Dahlgren gun, 2 × 12-pounder Dahlgren deck howitzers (picket duty only) |
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| Notes: | Armor is iron. |
USS Catskill (1862) was a monitor built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She continued to serve the Navy after the war’s end until decommissioned in 1898 after the end of the Spanish–American War.
USS Catskill—a single-turreted Passaic-class monitor—was launched on December 16, 1862 by Continental Iron Works, Greenpoint, New York; outfitted at New York Navy Yard; commissioned on February 24, 1863, Commander George Washington Rodgers in command; and reported to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
Catskill reported for duty at Port Royal, South Carolina on March 5, 1863, and for the remainder of the war operated off Charleston, South Carolina. Catskill was damaged by Confederate gunfire during the 7 April attack on Fort Sumter that demonstrated both the strengths of well-defended fortifications and the limitations of monitor-type ironclads. That began the lengthy series of operations against the strongly fortified and stoutly defended harbor.
From July–September 1863, Catskill repeatedly took part in attacks on the batteries and forts protecting Charleston from the sea. Rodgers was killed in action on 17 August, while directing the fire of his ship against Charleston's forts. The ship was hit by Confederate gunfire on several occasions, but skillful work by her crew—now under the command of Lieutenant Commander Edward Barrett—returned her to action without returning for repairs.
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