USS State of Georgia
Gunboat of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Georgia.
USS State of Georgia was a large steamer with powerful guns acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. State of Georgia, with her crew of 113 sailors and officers, was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in its blockade of Confederate waterways.
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Name | USS State of Georgia |
Builder | Vaughn & Lynn, Philadelphia |
Launched | 1851 |
Acquired | 25 September 1861 |
Commissioned | 20 November 1861 |
Decommissioned | 10 September 1864 |
Recommissioned | 5 January 1865 |
Decommissioned | 9 September 1865 |
Stricken | 1865 (est.) |
Fate | Sold, 25 October 1865 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Side-wheel steamer |
Displacement | 1,204 long tons (1,223 t) |
Length | 200 ft (61 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draft | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
Depth of hold | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
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Complement | 113 |
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A side-wheel steamer built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1851 by Vaughn & Lynn, the ship was purchased by the Union Navy at Philadelphia on 25 September 1861 from the Philadelphia and Savannah Steamship Co. It was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 20 November 1861, Commander James F. Armstrong in command.