High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Squando was a Casco class light draft monitor built during the American Civil War for operation in the shallow inland waters of the Confederacy. She was built by McKay & Aldus at East Boston, Massachusetts. While Squando was still on the ways under construction, the launching of Chimo on 5 May 1864 revealed that the displacement of the Casco class monitor had been miscalculated; and that, as a result, she had too little freeboard to be seaworthy. The Navy attempted to correct this defect in other Casco-class monitors by making various changes in the unfinished ships. In the case of Squando, on 24 June 1864, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles ordered the contractor to raise the monitor's deck 22 inches to give her sufficient freeboard for safe coastal operations. Her turret and pilot house were installed as originally planned.

Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.