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USS Wilderness
Gunboat of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Wilderness was a wooden-hulled, side-wheel steamship in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. After the war, she served as a revenue cutter. In 1873, she was renamed John A. Dix for former Secretary of the Treasury John Adams Dix.
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Name | USS Wilderness |
Laid down | 1864 |
Acquired | 30 May 1864 |
Commissioned | 20 July 1864 |
Decommissioned | 10 June 1865 |
Fate | Transferred to Treasury Department, 6 September 1865 |
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Name | USRC Wilderness |
Acquired | 6 September 1865 |
Commissioned | November 1865 |
Decommissioned | April 1891 |
Renamed | USRC John A. Dix, 11 June 1873 |
Fate | Sold, 18 May 1891 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Side-wheel steamer |
Displacement | 390 tons |
Length | 137 ft (42 m) |
Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Draft | 6 ft (1.8 m) |
Propulsion | Steam engine |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Armament | 4 × 24-pounder guns |
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