USS Fulton (1837)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Fulton.
USS Fulton was a steamer that served the U.S. Navy prior to the American Civil War, and was recommissioned in time to see service in that war. However, her participation was limited to being captured by Confederate forces in the port of Pensacola, Florida, at the outbreak of war.
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Drawing of Fulton as originally built in 1837 | |
History | |
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United States | |
Namesake | Robert Fulton |
Builder | U.S. Government at Brooklyn Navy Yard[1] |
Cost | $509,998.52[1] |
Laid down | 1835 |
Launched | 18 May 1837 |
Commissioned | 13 December 1837 |
Decommissioned | 23 November 1842 |
In service | 25 January 1852 |
Out of service | 1862 |
Stricken | 1862 |
Captured |
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Fate | Destroyed, 10 May 1862 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Side-wheel steamer |
Tonnage | 720 |
Length | 180 ft (55 m) |
Beam | 34 ft 8 in (10.57 m) |
Draft | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
Propulsion | steam engine, side wheel |
Speed | 10 knots |
Complement | 130 |
Armament | four 32-pounder guns |
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The second ship to be named Fulton by the Navy, a side wheel steamer, her build commenced in 1835, and she was launched 18 May 1837 by Brooklyn Navy Yard;[2] and commissioned 13 December 1837, Captain M. C. Perry in command. She was often called Fulton II. Fulton I was the renamed floating battery Demologos.