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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Modoc (1865-1875).
Briefly renamed Achilles in 1869
USS Modoc, an 1175-ton Casco-class light draft
monitor built at Greenpoint, New York, was completed as a spar-torpedo
vessel in June 1865. She had no active service, spending her entire
Navy career laid up "in ordinary" at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Modoc was renamed Achilles in June 1869, but received
her original name back less than two months later. She was sold
for scrapping in August 1875.
This page features all the views we have related to USS
Modoc.
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a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 74243
USS Modoc (1865-1875)
Just prior to launching, at the J.S. Underhull Shipyard, Greenpoint,
Long Island, New York, 21 March 1865.
Photographed by J.H. Beal & Company, New York.
Note the extremely shallow hull of this "light draft"
Casco class monitor, with propeller blades extending above
the deck level.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Wood Collection,
1971.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 55203
"Torpedo Arrangement & Platform ... Light Draft Monitors"
Plan of the spar torpedo equipment designed for installation
on the U.S. ships Casco, Chimo, Napa, Naubuc
and Modoc, circa 1864.
The original drawing is in the records of the Bureau of Ships
at the U.S. National Archives.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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