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Photo # NH 74243:  USS Modoc ready for launching, at Greenpoint, New York, 21 March 1865

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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.

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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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