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USS Tacony (1863)
Gunboat of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Tacony (disambiguation).
For other ships with the same name, see USS Tacony and CSS Tacony.
USS Tacony was a double-ended, side-wheel steamboat acquired by the Union Navy during the third year of the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a heavy gunboat with powerful guns and used in the Union blockade of the waterways of the Confederate States of America.
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Name | USS Tacony |
Namesake | A section of northeastern Philadelphia on the bank of the Delaware River |
Builder | Philadelphia Navy Yard |
Laid down | Date unknown |
Launched | 7 May 1863 |
Commissioned | 12 February 1864 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Decommissioned | 7 October 1867 at Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
Stricken | 1868 (est.) |
Fate | Sold, 26 August 1868 |
Notes | Double ended ship |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Sassacus-class gunboat |
Displacement | 974 tons |
Length | 205 ft (62 m) |
Beam | 35 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 8 ft 10 in (2.69 m) |
Depth of hold | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
Propulsion | Steam engine, side wheel-propelled |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 145 |
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