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USS Miami (1861)
American side-wheel steamer gunboat / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Miami.
The first USS Miami was a side-wheel steamer, double-ender gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
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Name | USS Miami |
Builder | Philadelphia Navy Yard |
Launched | 16 November 1861 |
Commissioned | 29 January 1862 |
Decommissioned | 22 May 1865 |
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Type | Sidewheel gunboat |
Displacement | 730 long tons (742 t) |
Length | 208 ft 2 in (63.45 m) |
Beam | 33 ft 2 in (10.11 m) |
Draft | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
Propulsion | Steam engine |
Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
Complement | 134 officers and men |
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Miami was launched by Philadelphia Navy Yard on November 16, 1861, and commissioned there on January 29, 1862, Lieutenant Abram Davis Harrell in command.