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USS TONAWANDA

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Miantonomoh Class Monitor: Displacement: 3,400 tons. Dimensions: 258.5 x 53 x 13 feet/78.8 x 16.07 x 3.86 meters. Propulsion: HRCR engines (Agamenticus & Monadnock had Ericsson VL engines), 4 boilers, 2 shafts, 1,400 ihp, 9 knots (design), 6.5 knots actual in some ships. Crew: 150. Armor: Iron: 5 inch sides, 1.5 inch decks, 10 inch turrets. Armament: 2 dual turrets, each with 2x15 inch Dahlgren smoothbore.

Operational and Building Data: Built by Philadelphia Navy Yard. Laid down 1862, launched 6 May 1864, commissioned 4 October 1865. Decommissioned to reserve 22 December 1865. Recommissioned 23 October 1866 as a training ship for the Naval Academy. Renamed Amphitrite, 15 June 1869. Apparently decommissioned to reserve 1872.
Fate: Transferred to Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington, DE for scrapping, 1873-74, as partial payment for a new monitor of the same name.

Size	Image Description	Source
86k	Ships moored in the Anacostia River off the Washington Navy Yard, D.C. waterfront, after the end of the Civil War, about 1865. The large twin-turret monitor in the center is *Miantonomoh, with the smaller monitor Montauk* tied up alongside her, to the left. In the left distance are the "light draft" monitor *Chimo* and the twin-turret monitor *Tonawanda. The former Confederate ironclad Stonewall* is beyond them. In the right distance is the Yard's western shiphouse. Ship at right is probably *Resaca*. The original print is mounted on a carte de visite produced by Christimo, 45 Rua de Quitanda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.	Courtesy of Mrs. W.E. Taylor, 1941, from the collection of Medical Inspector William E. Taylor, USN. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 58936.
61k	*Tonawanda* hull plan, showing lines and details of some wooden structural members, the sternpost and rudder. The plan is marked "Copied December 16th 1868. U.S. Navy Yard, Philadelphia. Pa. F.D. Wilson, A.N.C.". The original drawing is in the Records of the Bureau of Ships, held by the U.S. National Archives.	Text courtesy of USNHC photo # NH 42272. Photo courtesy of "Monitors of the U.S. Navy, 1861-1937", pg 32, by Lt. Richard H. Webber, USNR-R. (LOC) Library of Congress, Catalog Card No. 77-603596.
327k	Ships moored off the Washington Navy Yard, D.C., photographed from the stern of *Miantonomoh, circa 1865-66. Ships in the foreground are the monitors Chimo* and *Tonawanda. Beyond them is the ex-CSS Stonewall*.	Courtesy of Mrs. W.E. Taylor, 1941, from the collection of Medical Inspector William E. Taylor, USN. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 48107.
44k	U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Ships in the Severn River, off the Naval Academy, circa 1866-1870. They are (from left): an unidentified "Double-ender" gunboat; *Tonawanda; and America*.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 46618.
82k	U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. View of the Academy waterfront area, circa 1869, looking northeast from the tower of "New Quarters". The twin-turret monitor moored in the Severn River, at left, is *Tonawanda. Ships at the pier in right center are Dale* and *Santee*.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 2120.
82k	U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. View of the Academy waterfront area, circa late 1860's, looking northeast from the tower of "New Quarters". The twin-turret monitor moored in the Severn River, at left, is *Tonawanda. Ships at the pier in right center are Constellation, Dale* and *Santee*. Note the small tug on the beach at left, apparently under construction or undergoing a major overhaul, and the side-wheel steamer at the dock.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 49813.
81k	*Tonawanda, renamed Amphitrite* in 1869, anchored in the Severn River, Annapolis, Maryland, while serving as a training ship at the U.S. Naval Academy, circa 1866-1872. The original photograph is the right side of a stereographic pair.	Donation of Dr. G.S. Franklin. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 42753.
72k	*Tonawanda, renamed Amphitrite* in 1869, off the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, circa 1870.	Donation of Captain C.C. Marsh, USN. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 44650.
78k	*Tonawanda, renamed Amphitrite* in 1869, off the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, circa 1870.	Collection of the Pennsylvania Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Philadelphia, Pa. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 90533.
376k	A guest studies a painting depicting the history of battleships. The artwork was painted by George Skybeck and presented to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association during their annual banquet at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 8 December 1991.	USN photo # DN-SC-92-05391, by PHC Carolyn Harris, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.

USS Tonawanda History
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