Name: Douglas

Namesake: Douglas, Isle of Man

Builder: Robert Napier and Sons,

Glasgow, Scotland

Launched: 28 May 1858

In Service: 3 July 1858

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CSS Douglas

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Acquired: November 1862

In Service: 2 December 1862

Fate: Captured, 5 November 1863

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USS Gettysburg

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Namesake: Gettysburg, PA

Acquired: Captured 5 November 1863

Commissioned: 2 May 1864

Decommissioned: 23 June 1865

Recommissioned: 3 December 1865

Decommissioned: 1 March 1867

Recommissioned: 3 March 1868

Decommissioned: 8 October 1869

Recommissioned: 6 November 1873

Decommissioned: 9 April 1875

Recommissioned: 21 September 1875

Decommissioned: 26 June 1876

Recommissioned: 30 September 1876

Decommissioned: 6 May 1879

Fate: 8 May 1879

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Characteristics

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Type: Sidewheel gunboat

Displacement: 950 long tons

Length: 221 ft.

Beam: 26 ft. 3 in.

Depth: 13 ft. 6 in.

Propulsion: Side-lever team engine,

two sidewheel paddles

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