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added to the original plan and this resulted in excessive stress on the wooden hull frames and a freeboard of only 3 inches. Stimers was removed from the control of the project and
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had little connection to the board. This resulted in the plans being approved and 20 vessels ordered without serious scrutiny of the new design. $ 14 million US was allocated for the construction of these vessels. It was discovered that
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in 1863. By the time that the plans were put before the
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added as well. The ironclads of this class were considered of poor design. Only eight were completed by the war's end, none of them seeing action.
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682:Ironclads of the United States
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961:Never-commissioned ironclads
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1007:Miscellaneous ironclads
280:and were fitted with a
141:General characteristics
915:Commissioned ironclads
307:failed bombardment of
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1066:Casco-class monitors
794:Ocean-going monitors
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305:Samuel F. Du Pont's
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104:~$ 500,000
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870:Lafayette
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816:Kalamazoo
767:Milwaukee
718:Canonicus
47:Stonewall
43:Tonawanda
21:USS Chimo
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930:Columbia
802:Dictator
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374:See also
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221:Dahlgren
216:Armament
109:Launched
41:and USS
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863:Choctaw
809:Puritan
752:Roanoke
710:Passaic
696:Monitor
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582:Squando
568:Shawnee
561:Nausett
526:Klamath
282:ballast
252:monitor
203:9 knots
160:Tonnage
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85:Ordered
55:History
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547:Napa
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