An item reported that the new monitor USS Tunxis failed
when tested during her trial. Since then was her deck removed and the hull
built up with another 22
inches before replacing her deck. The hope was that
after this in fact rebuilding at the Philadelphia navy Yard she would be a
serviceable vessel.(1)
Note
1. Her building at the shipyard of Reaney
Son&Archbold, Chester, Pennsylvania was ordered in April 1863, launched on
4 June 1864, commissioned on 12 July at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, already
decommissioned in September and finally broken up in 1874. A by chief engineer
Alban C. Stimers revised light draught Casco-class design of John Ericsson. The
rebuilding was necessary as she took water in such a rate that the situation
became dangerous.
