French Service
Onondaga had a long career as a unit of the French Navy, retaining the historic name Onondaga. She was rearmed in French service, receiving 9.4-inch rifled guns in place of her U.S. battery of 8-inch Parrott rifles and 15-inch Dahlgren smoothbores.
Onondaga, whose iron hull helped to make her the longest-lived of the larger American-built Civil War era monitors, was sold for scrap in 1904.
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