![cover image](https://wikiwandv2-19431.kxcdn.com/_next/image?url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/USS_Isonomia_%25281864%2529.jpg/640px-USS_Isonomia_%25281864%2529.jpg&w=640&q=50)
USS Isonomia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Isonomia was a gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
Quick Facts History, United States ...
![]() USS Isonomia at anchor during the Civil War | |
History | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Name | USS Isonomia |
Namesake | Isonomia |
Acquired | by purchase, 16 July 1864 |
Commissioned | 16 August 1864 |
Decommissioned | 28 June 1865 |
Fate | Sold, 12 July 1865 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Steam gunboat |
Displacement | 593 long tons (603 t) |
Length | 212 ft (65 m) |
Beam | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
Depth of hold | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Propulsion | Steam engine |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 85 officers and men |
Armament |
|
Close
Originally built as a passenger steamboat intended for merchant service under the name Shamrock, the vessel was purchased at New York from Charles S. Leary on 16 July 1864. She was commissioned at New York Navy Yard on 16 August 1864.