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USS Water Witch (1851)
US Navy gunboat / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships of this name, see USS Water Witch.
The third USS Water Witch was a wooden-hulled, sidewheel gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She is best known as the ship fired on by Paraguay in 1855. In 1864 she was captured by the Confederate States Navy, and subsequently was taken into that Navy as CSS Water Witch.
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Name | USS/CSS Water Witch |
Laid down | 1851 |
Commissioned | 1853 |
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General characteristics | |
Displacement | 464 tons |
Length | 163 ft (50 m) |
Beam | 24 ft 4 in (7.42 m) |
Draft | 11 ft 9 in (3.58 m) |
Propulsion | steam |
Complement | 64 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 4 32-pdrs., 1 12-pdr.sb., 1 20-pdr. P.r., 4 32-pdrs. |
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