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{{short description|Gunboat of the United States Navy}}
{{For|ships with similar names|USS Mingo}}
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|Ship country=United States
|Ship flag={{USN flag|1865}}
|Ship name=Mingoe
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|Ship builder=D. S. Mershon
|Ship original cost=$157,000
|Ship laid down=1862
|Ship launched=6 August 1863
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|Ship commissioned=29 July 1864
|Ship out of service=1865
|Ship fate=sold, 3 October 1867
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|Ship class={{sclass|Sassacus|gunboat}}
|Ship displacement=974 tons
|Ship length={{convert|205|ft|m|abbr=on}} 
|Ship beam={{convert|35|ft|m|abbr=on}} 
|Ship draft={{convert|6|ft|5|in|m|abbr=on}}
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|Ship propulsion=*[[steam engine]]
*side wheel-propelled
|Ship sail plan=[[Schooner]]
|Ship speed={{convert|11|kn|lk=in}}
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|Ship complement=163/200
|Ship armament=*two 100-pounder guns
*two 24-pounder guns
*two 20-pounder guns
*one heavy 12-pounder gun
*one 12-pounder gun
|Ship armor=iron clad above waterline
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'''USS ''Mingoe''''' was a large double-ended, [[Paddle steamer|side wheel]], [[Ironclad warship|ironclad]]<ref name="NYT">{{cite news |date=May 22, 1863 |title=THE BLOCKADING SERVICE.; Arrival of the Supply Steamer Union--Capture of a Prize. Naval. OUR IRON-CLAD FLEET. Alleged Rebel Project for the Reinvasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. |newspaper=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1863/05/22/news/blockading-service-arrival-supply-steamer-union-capture-prize-naval-our-iron.html |access-date=September 22, 2016 }}</ref> [[Steamship|steamer]] [[gunboat]] commissioned by the [[Union Navy]] during the [[American Civil War]]. With heavy guns and a very fast speed of {{convert|11|kn|mph km/h|lk=in|abbr=on}}, the ship was intended by the Union Navy for use as a bombardment [[gunboat]]. They also stationed it as an interceptor gunboat off [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] waterways to prevent trading with foreign countries.

==Service history==
An [[Ironclad warship|ironclad]], [[Paddle steamer|side wheel]], [[Steamship|steam]] gunboat, with [[schooner]] [[rigging]], ''Mingoe'' was built under contract with [[Daniel S. Mershon, Jr.]] at [[Bordentown, New Jersey]], at a shipyard located along the Delaware River.<ref name="Naval War Records">{{cite book |last=United States |title=Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion |publisher=United States Naval War Records Office Government Printing Office |date=1921 |page=145|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924080777489#page/n156/mode/1up}}</ref> The ship was named after the [[Mingo people]], an Iroquoian-speaking group that had been based in western Ohio in the early nineteenth century. She was based on the same plans as {{USS|Sassacus|1862|2}}. She was reported "laid down" and under construction in Bordentown by the Navy Department on October 15, 1862.<ref name="Almanac1863">{{Cite book |title=The National Almanac and Annual Record for the Year 1863-64 |last=Childs |first=George |year=1863 |publisher=George W. Childs |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |page=115 |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AHJ1534.0001.001/119 | access-date=September 23, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Civil War Navies">{{cite book|last1=Silverstone|first1=Paul|title=Civil War Navies, 1855-1883|date=2006|publisher=Routledge|pages=38–39}}</ref> By January 31, 1863 the keel had been laid.<ref name=NYT2>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Naval Affairs.; LAUNCH OF A MAN-OF-WAR DESCRIPTION OF THE VESSEL THE FLEET TO WHICH IT BELONGS |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1863/01/31/news/naval-affairs-launch-man-war-description-vessel-fleet-which-it-belongs.html |newspaper=New York Times |date=January 31, 1863 |access-date=September 23, 2016 }}</ref> The [[Vehicle armour#Ships|ship's armor]] consisted of iron cladding the sides above the water sufficiently to protect the men on deck.<ref name=NYT3>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Naval Affairs.; LAUNCH OF A MAN-OF-WAR DESCRIPTION OF THE VESSEL THE FLEET TO WHICH IT BELONGS |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1863/01/31/news/naval-affairs-launch-man-war-description-vessel-fleet-which-it-belongs.html |newspaper=New York Times |date=January 31, 1863 |access-date=September 23, 2016 }}</ref> By May 29, 1863 the ship was so far along in construction, the ''New York Times'' predicted that she would be launched on June 10.<ref name=NYT5>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.; Naval. CHIEF-ENGINEER STIMERS IN TROUBLE. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1863/05/29/news/local-intelligence-naval-chief-engineer-stimers-in-trouble.html |newspaper=New York Times |date=May 29, 1863 |access-date=September 26, 2016 }}</ref> She was launched 6 August 1863, and commissioned 29 July 1864 at [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], Comdr. J. B. Creighton in command.

USS ''Mingoe'' joined the [[South Atlantic Blockading Squadron]] on 13 August 1864 and performed blockade duty in the [[St. Johns River]] and off [[Charleston, South Carolina]], until the end of the year. In February 1865, the Navy used her to assist General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]]’s Army in its advance up the [[James River (Virginia)|James River]]. After the end of the [[American Civil War|conflict]], ''Mingoe'' returned to [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. The ship was laid up at [[League Island]] until sold 3 October 1867.

== References ==
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*{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/m11/mingoe.htm}}

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