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

Aftermath of the USS Chickasaw

The USS Chickasaw was at the Battle of Mobile Bay and was sold at auction in New Orleans in 1874. It then became a railroad ferry and later was converted to sidewheel propulsion and renamed the Goldsborough.

Shortly before its demise there was an effort to turn it into a museum, but it failed and it was turned into a work barge for the Bisso family near New Orleans.

It sank in the 1950s and was recently rediscovered. There was an article bout it in the 2004 Montgomery Advertiser.

I'm sure the ship has very little left of the original monitor, but still a good story.

Great to Find a Old Monitor. --B-Runner