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USS Cherokee

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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