USS Kickapoo (1864)
 USS Kickapoo with a mine rake attached to her bow | |
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| Name: | USS Kickapoo |
| Laid down: | 1864 |
| Launched: | 18 February 1863 |
| Commissioned: | 8 July 1864 |
| Renamed: |
Cyclops, 15 June 1869 Kewaydin, 10 August 1869 |
| Fate: | Sold, 12 September 1874 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Ironclad Monitor |
| Displacement: | 1,300 long tons (1,321 t) |
| Length: | 229 ft (70 m) |
| Beam: | 56 ft 8 in (17.27 m) |
| Draft: | 6 ft (1.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine |
| Speed: | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
| Complement: | 123 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 × 11 in (280 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns |
| Armor: |
Turret: 8 in (200 mm) Pilothouse: 8 in (200 mm) Hull: 4 in (100 mm) Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm) |
USS Kickapoo was a double-turreted Milwaukee-class monitor built at St. Louis, Missouri by G. B. Allen & Co., in 1864 and commissioned at Mound City, Illinois on 8 July 1864, Lieutenant David C. Woods in command.
Service history
After serving the Mississippi River Squadron off the mouth of the Red River during the summer, the new ironclad was transferred to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron on 1 October and stationed in Mobile Bay, where Admiral David Farragut was building up strength for operations against the forts which protected the city. Lieutenant Commander Meriweather P. Jones assumed command of the monitor on 23 December.
In the spring of 1865 Kickapoo engaged in the dangerous work of sweeping the water approaches to the forts clearing defensive minefields. On 28 March she rescued the crew of Milwaukee after the ship struck a torpedo and sunk. The next day she was on hand to save the men of Osage after that monitor had met a similar fate.
Late in June Kickapoo sailed for New Orleans, LA where she decommissioned on 29 July and was laid up. Her name was changed to Cyclops 15 June 1869, and then Kewaydin 10 August. She was sold at public auction in New Orleans to Schickels, Harrison & Co., 12 September 1874.
References
Template:NHC This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
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