Swatara Class Sloop (1873)

Five Swatara class sloops were completed for the U.S. Navy from 1874 to 1885.

Overview of five vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
Swatara	New York NYd	1872	17 Sep, 1873	11 May, 1874	Sold 2 Nov, 1896
Marion	Portsmouth NYd	1872	22 Dec, 1873	12 Jan, 1876	Sold 24 Jul, 1907
Quinnebaug	Philadelphia NYd	1872	28 Sep, 1875	2 Oct, 1878	Sold 25 Mar, 1891
Galena	Norfolk NYd	1872	13 Mar, 1879	26 Aug, 1880	Sold 9 May, 1892
Mohican	Mare Island NYd	4 Sep, 1872	27 Dec, 1883	25 May, 1885	Sold 4 Mar, 1922

Design & Construction

All five were officially described as "repairs" of older ships, a traditional method used to fund new ships without the troublesome business of asking a Congress hostile of military spending to authorize new warships.

Armament

Varied. See individual articles.

See Also

• Wikipedia

Bibliography

• Bauer, K. Jack and Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. New York: Greenwood Press.
• Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
• Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: Civil War Navies, 1855-1883. New York: Routledge.
• Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.