USS Honeysuckle
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USS Honeysuckle was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
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Honeysuckle - oil-on-canvas painting by William Gaye Yorke | |
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United States | |
Ordered | as William G. Fargo |
Laid down | date unknown |
Launched | 1862 |
Acquired | 19 August 1863 |
Commissioned | 3 December 1863 |
Decommissioned | 30 June 1865 |
Stricken | 1865 (est.) |
Fate | Sold, 1865 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 241 tons |
Length | 123 ft (37 m) |
Beam | 20 ft 2 in (6.15 m) |
Draught | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 12 knots |
Complement | not known |
Armament | two 20-pounder guns |
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She was used by the Navy as a gunboat to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries. At war's end, she was converted to a storeship before eventually being decommissioned.