USS Glasgow
Gunboat of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Glasgow was originally a British cross-Channel sidewheel steamer named Eugenie owned by the South Eastern Railway that was built during the early 1860s. She was sold for blockade-running duties in 1863 and was captured by the Union Navy later that year during the American Civil War. Incorporated into the Navy, she was principally used as a dispatch boat and storeship in support of the Union blockade of the ports of the Confederate States of America. Renamed Glasgow in 1864, she sank after striking an obstacle the following year, but was refloated and repaired. The ship was sold back into commercial service in 1869 and was scrapped 20 years later.
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Name | Eugenie |
Owner | South Eastern Railway |
Route | Cross-Channel |
Builder | Samuelson, Hull, UK |
Launched | 9 July 1861 |
Fate | Sold, 1863 |
United States | |
Name | Glasgow, 21 January 1864 |
Acquired | 9 July 1863 |
Commissioned | 9 July 1863 |
Decommissioned | 17 October 1868 |
Captured | By Union Navy forces, 6 May 1863 |
Fate | Sold, 4 June 1869 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Hilda |
Acquired | 4 June 1869 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1889 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 428 gross register tons (GRT) |
Tons burthen | 252 |
Length | 235 ft (71.6 m) |
Beam | 24 ft 3 in (7.4 m) |
Draft | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) |
Depth | 11 ft 9 in (3.6 m) |
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Speed | 9.5 kn (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph) |
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