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USS Cherokee

USS Cherokee

USS Cherokee
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USS Cherokee
Namesake: Cherokee Tribe
Laid down: 1859
Captured: May 1863
Acquired: 1864
Commissioned: April 1864
Decommissioned: 1865
Renamed: Ancud, Chilean Navy
Fate: Wrecked, 1889
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Characteristics
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Displacement: 606 tons
Length: 194ft. 6 in.
Beam: 25 ft.
Draft: 11 ft. 6 in.
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Armament
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2 x 20-pounder rifles
4 x 20-pounder smoothbores
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Battles
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North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
8 December 1864: Captured blockade runner Emma Henry
1​st Battle of Fort Fisher
2nd Battle of Fort Fisher
East Gulf Blockading Squadron
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