USS Saginaw (1859)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Saginaw and USS Toucey.
The first USS Saginaw was a sidewheel sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. The ship was in operation throughout the 1860s, but in 1870 wrecked on what is now known as Kure Atoll, a Pacific island. The event produced several books and one of the surviving boats from the ship is in a museum.
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USS Saginaw, probably at Mare Island Navy Yard in 1862. | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Saginaw |
Laid down | 16 September 1858 |
Launched | 3 March 1859 |
Commissioned | 5 January 1860 |
Decommissioned | 3 January 1862 |
Recommissioned | 23 March 1863 |
Fate | Wrecked 29 October 1870 |
General characteristics | |
Type | sloop-of-war |
Displacement | 453 long tons (460 t) |
Length | 155 ft (47 m) |
Draft | 4 ft 5 in (1.35 m) |
Complement | 50 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 1 × 50 pdr (23 kg) gun, 1 × 32 pdr (15 kg) gun, 2 × 24 pdr (11 kg) rifles |
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The wreck of the USS Saginaw was found in 2003.[1]