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USS Mackinaw

USS Mackinaw

USS Mackinaw
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USS Mackinaw
Builder: New York Navy Yard
Laid Down: 1863
Launched: 22 April 1863
Commissioned: 23 April 1864
Decommissioned: 4 May 1867
Fate: Sold, 3 October 1867
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Characteristics
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Class & Type: Sassacus-class gunboat
Displacement: 974 tons
Length: 206 ft.
Beam: 35 ft.
Draft: 9 ft.
Installed power: Vertical beam steam engine
Propulsion: Sidewheels
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Armament
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2 x 100-pounder Parrott rifles
4 x 9-inch smoothbore guns
2 x 24-pounder smoothbore guns
1 x heavy 12-pounder
1 x 12-pounder rifle
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Battles
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North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
James River
Destroyed steamer Georgiana McCaw
Dutch Gap, VA
Wilmington Blockade
1st Battle of Fort Fisher
2nd Battle of Fort Fisher
Fort Anderson, NC
Port Royal, SC
North Atlantic Squadron
West Indies
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