USS Cornubia
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The SS Cornubia was laid down in November 1856 and built in Hayle, Cornwall, by Harvey & Co. She was launched in February 1858 as a packet ship and ferry for the Hayle and Bristol Steam Packet Company. Sleek and painted white, with two funnels mounted close together amidships and with a high bridge over her paddle wheels, she plied the Hayle/St Ives to Bristol route in the days when the Great Western Railway had not penetrated as far as West Cornwall.
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Name | USS Cornubia |
Builder | Harvey & Co. |
Cost | £18,000[1] (£2,288,148 in 2023)[2] |
Laid down | November 1856[1] |
Launched | February 1858[1] |
Commissioned | 17 March 1864 |
Decommissioned | 9 August 1865 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Stricken | 1865 (est.) |
Captured | by Union Navy forces, 8 November 1863 |
Fate | Sold, 25 October 1865 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Paddle steamer |
Displacement | 589 long tons (598 t) |
Length | 210 ft (64 m) |
Beam | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) |
Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Depth of hold | 13 ft 3 in (4.04 m) |
Installed power | 230 hp (170 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
Complement | 76 |
Armament | 1 × 20-pounder rifle, 2 × 24-pounder smoothbore guns |
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