USS Port Royal (1862)
Gunboat of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Port Royal.
USS Port Royal was a double-ended gunboat built for the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War. The vessel was assigned to patrol the rivers and other waterways of the Confederate States of America and to enforce the Union blockade on the South.
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Name | USS Port Royal |
Namesake | One of the Sea Islands |
Launched | 17 January 1862 |
Commissioned | 26 April 1862 |
Decommissioned | 23 May 1866 |
Fate | Sold, 3 October 1866 |
General characteristics | |
Type | steamboat |
Displacement | 805 tons |
Length | 209 ft (64 m) |
Beam | 35 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Depth of hold | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
Propulsion | steam engine, side-wheel propelled |
Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
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