USS Abeona
Gunboat of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Abeona was a mercantile stern wheel steamer that traded on the Mississippi between 1831 and her destruction by fire in 1872, except for two years, between 1863 and 1865, when she served the United States Navy as a gunboat.
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Name | Abeona |
Namesake | Abeona |
Launched | 1831 |
Acquired | by purchase, 21 December 1864 |
Commissioned | 10 April 1865 |
Decommissioned | 4 August 1865 |
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Type | Steam gunboat |
Displacement | 206 long tons (209 t) |
Length | 157 ft (48 m) |
Beam | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
Depth of hold | 4 ft (1.2 m) |
Propulsion | Steam engine |
Speed | 8 kn (9.2 mph; 15 km/h) |
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