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USS Commodore Barney
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
Chowan River reconnaissance
Panumkey River Expedition
James River (took a torpedo)
James-Nansemond Rivers Expedition
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