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USS Yantic
American Civil War gunboat / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Yantic (IX-32), a wooden-hulled screw gunboat built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, was launched on 19 March 1864 and commissioned on 12 August 1864, Lieutenant Commander Thomas C. Harris in command. She was named after the Yantic River.
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Name | USS Yantic |
Namesake | Yantic River, CT |
Builder | Philadelphia Navy Yard |
Launched | 19 March 1864 |
Commissioned | 12 August 1864 |
Reclassified | IX-32, 15 May 1921 |
Stricken | 9 May 1930 |
Fate | Sunk, 22 October 1929 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Gunboat |
Displacement | 836 long tons (849 t) |
Length | 179 ft (55 m) p/p |
Beam | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
Draft | 13 ft 9 in (4.19 m) |
Speed | 9.5 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph) |
Complement | 154 |
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