USS Juniata
USS Juniata
Namesake: The Juniata River
Builder: Philadelphia Navy Yard
Launched: 20 March 1862
Sponsored by: Miss Angela Turner
Commissioned: 4 December 1862
Decommissioned: 19 July 1867
Recommissioned: 19 July 1869
Decommissioned: 10 July 1872
Recommissioned: 10 February 1873
Decommissioned: 1 September 1876
Recommissioned: 30 October 1882
Decommissioned: 28 February 1889
Fate: Sold, 25 March 1891
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Characteristics
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Type: Steam Sloop-of-war
Tonnage: 1240
Draft: 15 ft. 3 in.
Propulsion: Steam engine
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Armament
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1 x 100-pounder Parrott rifle
1 x 11-in. smoothbore Dahlgren gun
4 x 30-pounder Parrott rifles
1 x 12-pounder gun
4 x 24-pounder howitzers
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Battles
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North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
Captured schooner Harvest
West Indies Squadron at Havana
Captured English steamer Victor
Captured schooner Fashion
Captured English schooner Elizabeth and Don Jose
Search for cruiser Tallahassee
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
1st Battle of Fort Fisher
2nd Battle of Fort Fisher
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron
Off the coast of Brazil protecting Americans
Greenland to search for survivors of Polaris
European Station
Voyage around the world returning to New York on 10 December 1885
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