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USS Monongahela (920 words) |
 | Monongahela grounded under the guns of a heavy battery, taking a murderous pounding and losing six men killed and 21 wounded, including the captain, until she worked loose with Kinco's aid While attempting to continue upriver, her overloaded engine broke down, and the sloop was forced to drift downstream with Kineo. |
| Monongahela remained on duty with the West Gulf Squadron until the end of the Civil War, and then was assigned to the West Indies Squadron. |
| Monongahela continued her duty on the Pacific Station as storeship at Callao, Peru, into 1890, and then sailed round Cape Horn to Portsmouth Navy Yard to be fitted out as an apprentice training ship. |
| USN Ships--USS MONONGAHELA (1863-1908) (523 words) |
| USS Monongahela, a 2078-ton steam screw sloop built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, was commissioned in January 1863. |
| Monongahela was converted to a sailing storeship in 1883-84, with her engines removed to increase storage space. |
| Monongahela had received a bowsprit in her 1865 refit, but retains her original straight bow. |
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