USS Samuel Rotan
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USS Samuel Rotan was a schooner acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was outfitted by the Union Navy as a gunboat to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries. Prior to the war, the US Navy had mostly large, deep-draft, oceangoing vessels. The establishment of the Union blockade required small, fast, shallow-draft vessels like the Samuel Rotan for littoral operations.
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Name | USS Samuel Rotan |
Laid down | Not known |
Launched | Date unknown |
Acquired |
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Commissioned |
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Decommissioned |
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Stricken | 1865 (est.) |
Fate | Sold, 15 August 1865 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Schooner |
Displacement | 212 tons |
Length | 110 ft (34 m) |
Beam | 28 ft 6 in (8.69 m) |
Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Depth of hold | 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Complement | 29 |
Armament | 2 × 32-pounder guns |
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