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USS Emma

Builder: Barclay Curle

Laid Down: date unknown

Launched: 24 November 1862

Captured: by Union forces, 24 July 1863

Acquired: 30 September 1863

Commissioned: 4 November 1863

Decommissioned: 30 August 1865

Stricken: 1865 (est.)

Fate: Sold, 1 November 1865

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Characteristics

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Displacement: 350 tons

Length: 156 ft.

Beam: 21 ft.

Draft: 9 ft. 4 in.

Propulsion: Greenock Foundry Company steam engine

screw-propelled

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Armament

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6 24-pounder howitzers

2 12-pounder rifles

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Battles

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Captured by the SS Arago off Wilmington, NC

North Atlantic Blockading Squadron

Joined in destruction of blockade runner Ella

1st Battle of Fort Fisher

2nd Battle of Fort Fisher

Supported effort to prevent Pres. Jefferson Davis from fleeing

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