# Talk:USS Onondaga (1863)

Replaced old blue infobox with newest type of ship infobox.
Modified photo at top of infobox to better show the monitor.
Added two photos to the text, one for James River service, one for French service.
Added intro paragraph to summarize ship's career.
Wikified entire page.
Minor eds, fixes, link corrections, etc.Wikited (talk) 23:55, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

That "honor goes to USS Canonicus.  It lasted until 1907.  See http://www.hrnm.navy.mil/daybooks/volumexiissue3.pdf  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gcal1971 (talk • contribs) 16:45, 6 December 2008 (UTC) 

This review is transcluded from Talk:USS Onondaga (1863)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 23:52, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
An ACW article.  This one's up my forte. Hog Farm  Bacon 23:52, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

"The nine-caliber Dahlgren gun weighed 42,900 pounds (19,500 kg)" - Should gun be plural here, as there were two Dahlgren pieces on the ship?
"Construction was delayed by shortages of material, labor and the closing of the shipyard during the New York City draft riots in July 1863. The ship cost $759,673.08, a budget overrun of over 21 percent" - If I did my math right, it would round to 22%, but if the source says 21%, stick with that.  I may also have done my math wrong.
"and arrived at Hampton Roads two days later." - Might be worth specifying that Hampton Roads was in Virginia and was Union-held territory nominally part of the CSA
I'm not seeing where the commission date (15 June 1869) for the French Navy is cited
Both of the external links are dead.  Archive or remove.
It's probably the date of commissioned for trials, but since I can't substantiate it, gone.
For the general characteristics in the infobox, it's probably worth qualifying them as (as built), since the French refit seems to have changed some things.
Good idea.
I don't know if the sources state these, but one of the interesting things about the Union Navy monitors was that some of them had a very low freeboard.  If it's mentioned, it might be worth stating, although I think they got the worst design flaws fixed by 1864. Hog Farm  Bacon 16:24, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
Yes and no, read the Casco-class monitor article for the no side. Otherwise pretty much yes. Thanks for the review.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 14:27, 19 August 2020 (UTC)