USS Monocacy, a 1370-ton Mohongo class "double-ender" gunboat, was built at Baltimore, Maryland. She was commissioned in early 1866. Soon sent out to the Far East, she served there for nearly four decades, becoming by far the longest-lived of the nearly four-dozen "double-enders" the Navy built during the Civil War era.
During the later 1860s, Monocacy generally operated in Japanese waters, performing survey work and protecting commerce during the unsettled conditions then prevailing in much of the country. In 1871, the gunboat participated in an expedition to Korea's Han River which resulted in the seizure of forts there. Though also seeing duty elsewhere in the region, she spent much of the next thirty years in Chinese waters, patrolling that nation's great rivers and coastal areas. During the "Boxer Uprising" of 1900, she took part in the allies' combat operations against Chinese forces. This was Monocacy's final important undertaking. She was sold in November 1903.
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Photo #: NH 78636 USS Monocacy (1866-1903) Riding out a storm, circa the 1860s or 1870s. The original is a photograph of an artwork, mounted on a carte de visite. Donation of Hamilton Cochran, 1973. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 475 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 61702 USS Monocacy (1866-1903) Photographed in Chinese waters, circa the 1890s. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 505 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 1268 USS Monocacy (1866-1903) Dressed with flags for a special occasion, while moored off Shanghai, China, in 1897. The occasion may be British, as the Royal Navy's White Ensign is flying from her mainmast peak. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 545 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 45979 USS Monocacy (1866-1903) Off Shanghai, China, in 1898. Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN(MC), 1931. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 44KB; 740 x 475 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 100314 USS Monocacy (1866-1903) Dressed with flags, in the Pei-Ho River, Tientsin, China, in about 1902. Photo printed on a stereograph card, copyrighted in 1902 by C.H. Graves, Philadelphia, Pa. Donation of Louis Smaus, 1985 U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 87KB; 655 x 675 pixels A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 100314-A Online Image of stereo pair: 52KB; 675 x 390 pixels |
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Note: In addition to the views shown above, our Photo # NH 44997 shows a ship in the right background that may be USS Monocacy
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Page made 27 June 2001