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USS Mackinaw

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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