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USS Commodore Barney
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USS Commodore Barney

Built By: Unknown

Sailed: 1859 in New York City

Commissioned: October 1861

Decommissioned: 5 May 1865

at Washington Navy Yard

Fate: Sold 20 July 1865

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Characteristics

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Type: Gunboat

Displacement: 512 long tons

Length: 143 feet

Beam: 33 feet

Draft: 9 feet

Propulsion: Steam Engine

Side-Wheeled Propelled

Speed: 8 knots (9.2 mph)

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Armament

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1 x 100-pounder rifle

3 x 9-inch smoothbore guns

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Battles

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Port Royal (badly damaged)

North Atlantic Blockading Squadron

Roanoke Island

Chowan River reconnaissance

New Bern

Hampton Roads

Suffolk, Virginia

Panumkey River Expedition

James River (took a torpedo)

James-Nansemond Rivers Expedition

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