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The Steamer Selma Captured in Mobile Bay by the Metacomet, August 5, 1864.

Namesake: Selma, Alabama

Built: 1856 as a the Florida mail packet

Commissioned: 1861

Renamed: Selma, July 1862

Fate: Captured at Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864

Union Navy

Acquired: 5 August 1864

Decommissioned: 16 July 1865

Fate: sold into merchant service 16 July 1865

Sunk 24 June 1865

Characteristics

Displacement: 590 tons

Length: 252 ft.

Beam: 30 ft.

Draft: 6 ft.

Propulsion: Steam Engine

Speed: 9 Knots

Armament

2 x 9-inch smoothbore cannons

1 x 8-inch smoothbore cannon

1 x 6.4 inch rifled cannon

Battles

Mobile Bay

Until captured 5 August 1864