The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Selling Off the Monitors

Quite a few old US monitors were sold at an auction held in New Orleans, Louisiana on September 12, 1874.

USS Winnebago which later became the Maneo Capoc in the Peruvian Navy

USS Yuma-- sold to Theodore Allen of New Orleans

USS Chickasaw-- converted to a railroad ferry and later side wheel propulsion

USS Klamath-- never commissioned, sold to be broken up

USS Kickapoo



USS Yazoo-- sold September 5, 1875

Should Have Kept One. --Old B-Runner