USS Casco (1864)
USS Casco on the James River, Virginia, 1865, while serving as a spar torpedo vessel. Note the torpedo gear mounted on her bow and the 11-inch (279 mm) Dahlgren smoothbore gun pivot-mounted on deck. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Casco |
| Ordered | April 1863 |
| Builder | Atlantic Works, Boston |
| Cost | $500,000 |
| Launched | May 1864 |
| Commissioned | 4 December 1864 |
| Decommissioned | 10 June 1865 |
| Renamed | Hero |
| Refit | To spar torpedo vessel, June 1864 |
| Fate | Broken up, April 1875 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Casco-class light draft monitor |
| Displacement | 1,175 |
| Length | 225 ft (69 m) |
| Beam | 45 ft (14 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam engine, twin screws |
| Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h) |
| Complement | 69 officers and enlisted |
| Armament | 1 × 11-inch (280 mm) Dahlgren smoothbore cannon, 1 x spar torpedo |
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The first USS Casco was the first of a class of twenty 1,175-ton light-draft monitors built by Atlantic Works, Boston, Massachusetts for the Union Navy during the American Civil War.