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Ported to OBJ, textured, and further modified from the STL format low poly waterline tabletop war gaming model created by Patrick Woodard. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can download Mr. Woodard's original STL model as part of his Union Ironclads Pack at the link below but be warned! STL models normally come untextured because they're made for use with 3D printers, with the end user expected to hand paint the 3D printed model. Furthermore I've added extra parts to this one in order to soup it up a bit and make it look somewhat better. If you want this to look the way it does in the above picture (or even better if you have the skill), then you'll have to round up your own textures and extra parts and do the job yourself, just like I did. Here's that link:

www.thingiverse.com/thing:3184…

This follow-on to the Passaic class (see separate entry) was a class of nine single-turreted monitor type ironclads built for the Union Navy or United States Navy (USN) during the American Civil War (1862-65). Wikipedia describes them as "... basically improved Passaics, modified in accordance with war experience" and their assessment is accurate. The class name comes from USS Canonicus, the second ordered but the first to be commissioned and enter USN service (1 August 1863).

The hull was redesigned in the hope of achieving 15 knots top speed but the weight of both their armor and their gun turret negated any gains and limited then to 9 knots top speed in reality. Armament consisted of two 15-inch Dahlgren guns, with both mounted inside its only gun turret. Armor was 10 inches thick on the turret, 5 inches on the hull sides, and 1.5 inches of deck armor, with additional protection at the bases of both the turret (the turret skirt) and the single smokestack against shell fragments. The odd outward-angled thing around the top of the turret was a rifle screen to help protect the gun turret crew against Confederate snipers, and it apparently worked so well that rifle screens were either backfitted to or installed during construction of other Union monitor type ironclads.

All but two of the Canonicus class would serve during the Civil War, with class members Catawba and Oneota completed too late for it. They were eventually sold to Peru for use in its own navy in 1868 without ever having been commissioned into USN service, and there's quite a story regarding those two in their Peruvian service you can look up for yourselves. Tecumseh was the only one lost during the war, striking a mine during the opening of the Battle of Mobile Bay and sinking with all hands lost within half-a-minute of that. After the war the survivors were relegated to coastal patrol duties. All of them would last in USN service long enough to take part in the Spanish-American War (again providing coastal defense) but that would be their last major conflict, as the USN began scrapping them not long after that. Special mention should also be made of class ship Canonicus, which wound up being the oldest surviving Civil War era USN vessel of any kind. She was officially decommissioned from USN in 1877; however, she was pulled from mothballs to take part in the Jamestown Exposition of 1907 given her historical significance, and there is a rare silent film from the era showing her underway at the exposition. She was quickly returned to mothballs once that was over, and Canonicus was finally sold for scrap later that year.

This model is missing many of the finer details of the original Canonicus. That's because it was originally created for use as a small naval war gaming miniature. I textured it and added the guns so it wouldn't look so plain but that's about it. That said I think this is still decent for what it is, and it will do nicely as a placeholder for now. I hope you have fun with it too once you download it and start playing with it yourselves. XD

For non-profit, non-commercial use only. If you use, mod, re-release in original or modded form or do anything else with Mr. Woodard's models, please give him credit for his original handiwork, okay? Thank you.

Description

Ported to OBJ, textured, and further modified from the STL format low poly waterline tabletop war gaming model created by Patrick Woodard. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can download Mr. Woodard's original STL model as part of his Union Ironclads Pack at the link below but be warned! STL models normally come untextured because they're made for use with 3D printers, with the end user expected to hand paint the 3D printed model. Furthermore I've added extra parts to this one in order to soup it up a bit and make it look somewhat better. If you want this to look the way it does in the above picture (or even better if you have the skill), then you'll have to round up your own textures and extra parts and do the job yourself, just like I did. Here's that link:

www.thingiverse.com/thing:3184…

This follow-on to the Passaic class (see separate entry) was a class of nine single-turreted monitor type ironclads built for the Union Navy or United States Navy (USN) during the American Civil War (1862-65). Wikipedia describes them as "... basically improved Passaics, modified in accordance with war experience" and their assessment is accurate. The class name comes from USS Canonicus, the second ordered but the first to be commissioned and enter USN service (1 August 1863).

The hull was redesigned in the hope of achieving 15 knots top speed but the weight of both their armor and their gun turret negated any gains and limited then to 9 knots top speed in reality. Armament consisted of two 15-inch Dahlgren guns, with both mounted inside its only gun turret. Armor was 10 inches thick on the turret, 5 inches on the hull sides, and 1.5 inches of deck armor, with additional protection at the bases of both the turret (the turret skirt) and the single smokestack against shell fragments. The odd outward-angled thing around the top of the turret was a rifle screen to help protect the gun turret crew against Confederate snipers, and it apparently worked so well that rifle screens were either backfitted to or installed during construction of other Union monitor type ironclads.

All but two of the Canonicus class would serve during the Civil War, with class members Catawba and Oneota completed too late for it. They were eventually sold to Peru for use in its own navy in 1868 without ever having been commissioned into USN service, and there's quite a story regarding those two in their Peruvian service you can look up for yourselves. Tecumseh was the only one lost during the war, striking a mine during the opening of the Battle of Mobile Bay and sinking with all hands lost within half-a-minute of that. After the war the survivors were relegated to coastal patrol duties. All of them would last in USN service long enough to take part in the Spanish-American War (again providing coastal defense) but that would be their last major conflict, as the USN began scrapping them not long after that. Special mention should also be made of class ship Canonicus, which wound up being the oldest surviving Civil War era USN vessel of any kind. She was officially decommissioned from USN in 1877; however, she was pulled from mothballs to take part in the Jamestown Exposition of 1907 given her historical significance, and there is a rare silent film from the era showing her underway at the exposition. She was quickly returned to mothballs once that was over, and Canonicus was finally sold for scrap later that year.

This model is missing many of the finer details of the original Canonicus. That's because it was originally created for use as a small naval war gaming miniature. I textured it and added the guns so it wouldn't look so plain but that's about it. That said I think this is still decent for what it is, and it will do nicely as a placeholder for now. I hope you have fun with it too once you download it and start playing with it yourselves. XD

For non-profit, non-commercial use only. If you use, mod, re-release in original or modded form or do anything else with Mr. Woodard's models, please give him credit for his original handiwork, okay? Thank you.