USS Sangamon (1863)
USS Jason at New York during the Spanish–American War.
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| Name: | USS Sangamon |
| Builder: | Reaney, Son & Archbold |
| Laid down: | 1862 |
| Launched: | September 9, 1862 |
| Commissioned: | February 9, 1863 |
| Decommissioned: | ca. 1865 |
| Recommissioned: | May 13, 1898 |
| Decommissioned: | 1899 |
| Renamed: | USS Jason, 10 June 1869 |
| Fate: | Sold April 1904 |
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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: | 77 |
| Armament: | 1 × 15 in (380 mm) smoothbore gun, 1 × 11 in (280 mm) Dahlgren gun |
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| Notes: | Armor is iron. |
USS Sangamon was a Passaic-class ironclad monitor constructed for the Union Navy during the second year of the American Civil War where she operated in the waterways of the Confederate States of America. She was later recommissioned and placed into service during the Spanish–American War.
The first U.S. Navy ship to be so named, Sangamon was laid down under the name Conestoga in the summer of 1862; renamed Sangamon on September 9, 1862; launched on October 27, 1862; and commissioned on February 9, 1863 at Chester, Pennsylvania, Commodore Pierce Crosby in command.
The monitor was assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and soon began efficient but unspectacular operations in Hampton Roads, Virginia and in the many roughly parallel rivers which empty into Chesapeake Bay. Sangamon was one of the vital ships of the Navy which guaranteed the Army control of the waters which border and penetrate the bitterly contested land which separated Washington, D.C. and Richmond, Virginia.
After repairs at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 21 February 1864, she was towed by Wachusett to Port Royal, South Carolina for duty with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. After Union blockade duty off Charleston, South Carolina, she returned to Hampton Roads in the summer to support General Ulysses S. Grant's drive on Richmond, Virginia.
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