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USS Alert

Built By: Unknown

Sailed: 1861 at Syracuse, New York

Acquired: 3 October 1861

Commissioned: 3 October 1861

Decommissioned: 26 May 1865

Fate: Sold 5 July 1865

Characteristics

Type: Tugboat / Dispatch Boat / Ship's Tender / Gunboat

Displacement: 90 long tons

Length: 62 feet

Beam: 17 feet

Draft: 6 feet 5 inches

Depth of Hold: 7 feet

Propulsion: Steam Engine

Screw-Propelled

Speed: 7 knots 8.1 mph

Armament:

1 x 24-pounder rifled howitzer

Battles

North Atlantic Blockading Squadron

Siege of Suffolk

Nansemond River Expedition

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