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USS Camanche, a 1335-ton Passaic class monitor, was prefabricated at Jersey City, New Jersey. Her materials were then sent around Cape Horn in the sailing ship Aquila to San Francisco, California, where Aquila sank in November 1863. The monitor's parts were salvaged and assembled at San Francisco and she went into commission in May 1865, just after the end of the Civil War.

>>> THE CAMANCHE <<<>>> CARRIED BY==THE AQUILA<<<

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The carrier was the Aquilla and the ironclad it carried was the Commanche.

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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Camanche (1865-1899)
USS Camanche, a 1335-ton Passaic class monitor, was prefabricated at Jersey City, New Jersey. Her materials were then sent around Cape Horn in the sailing ship Aquila to San Francisco, California, where Aquila sank in November 1863. The monitor's parts were salvaged and assembled at San Francisco and she went into commission in May 1865, just after the end of the Civil War. For more than a year, until the arrival of the larger twin-turret monitor Monadnock, Camanche was the Navy's only ironclad warship on the Pacific coast, and she was one of but two stationed there for nearly two and a half decades.

Camanche's career was a quiet one, with the ship generally maintained in decommissioned status at the Mare Island Navy Yard, in northern San Francisco Bay. She was the California Naval Militia's training ship in 1896-97 and appears to have been reactivated in 1898, during the Spanish-American War. USS Camanche was sold in 1899, but photographic evidence indicates that she remained in the San Francisco area for a few years after that.

SouthernHeart Lorrie

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Camanche (AKA Comanche)

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USS Camanche

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The first iron-clad that served in the Pacific was the USS CAMANCHE, an ******** Monitor of 1857 tons. She was built at New York by Francis Secor and when completed, she was disassembled and shipped on board the AQUILA to San Francisco. The AQUILA left New York May 29, 1863, and arrived at San Francisco November 10, almost six months en route. The AQUILA broke from her moorings during a heavy gale on November 16. She was rescued and berthed at the Hathaway wharf, but on the same day, CAMANCHE and all, she sank in the mud at the bottom of the bay. Captain Allison of Benicia made an unsuccessful attempt to raise her and after three weeks abandoned his efforts.

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Yesterday's Question: Name the ironclad designed by John Ericson that was built to help defend the San Francisco harbor during the Civil War, but failed to receive it's commission before the war's end because the delivery ship sank at the San Francisco pier with the un-assembled ship on board. USS Camanche

Here is today's one point question:

What was the nickname of the 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment?

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The Teachers Regiment, or Normal Regiment....company K was a.k.a. The Bateman Rifles

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ONE MORE NICKNAME FROM ANOTHER SOURCE: THE BRAINS REGIMENT