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Photo # NH 58791:  USS Napa and USS Monadnock.  Civil War era engraving

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USS Napa (1865-1875).
Briefly renamed Nemesis in 1869

USS Napa, an 1175-ton Casco-class light draft monitor built at Wilmington, Delaware, was converted to a spar torpedo vessel while still under construction in 1864. She was delivered to the U.S. Navy in May 1865, but was never placed in commission. While laid up at the League Island Navy Yard, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Napa's name was changed to Nemesis in June 1869, but reverted to Napa less than two months later. She was scrapped in 1875.

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Photo #: NH 58791

USS Monadnock
(1864-1874)
and
USS Napa (1865-1875)

Engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 226.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 235 pixels

 
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.

Online Image: 136KB; 1200 x 920 pixels

 


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