Shipbucket

A Work In Progress. Kalamazoo Class
Displacement: 5,600 long tons (5,700 t)
Tons burthen: 3,200 (bm)
Length: 345 ft 5 in (105.3 m)
Beam: 56 ft 8 in (17.3 m)
Draft: 17 ft 6 in (5.3 m)
Installed power: 2,000 ihp (1,500 kW) (estimated)
8 × Tubular boilers
Propulsion: 2 × Shafts
2 × Direct-acting steam engines
Speed: 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Armament: 2 × 2 - 15-inch (381 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns
Armor: Gun turret: 10 in (254 mm)
Hull: 6 in (152 mm)
Deck: 3 in (76 mm)

Ships in the Class:
Kalamazoo
Passaconaway
Quinsigamond
Shackamaxon

They were under construction when the Civil War ended and never completed. The lower hulls were constructed of unseasoned wood, dry-rot set in several years later, they were all condemned and broken up. A shame!

They were intended to be seagoing and might have been able to stand up to some of the best Europe had to offer. Despite the super slow rate of fire, those 15" guns packed a lot of throw weight. If the ball hit something, it broke.

CraigH