Namesake: Lake Huron

Launched: 21 September 1861

Commissioned: 8 January 1862

Decommissioned: October 1868

Renamed: D. H. Bills

Stricken: 1869 (est.)

Fate: Sold, 14 June 1869

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Characteristics

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Class and Type: Unadilla-class gunboat

Displacement: 691 tons

Tons: 507

Length: 158 ft.

Beam: 28 ft. 

Draft: 9 ft. 6 in.

Depth of Hold: 12 ft.

Propulsion: 2 x 200 IHP 30-in bore by 18 inch stroke horizontal back-acting engines; single screw

Sail Plan: Two-masted Schooner

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