USS Maratanza

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USS Maratanza

Laid down: 1861

Launched: 26 November 1861

Commissioned: 12 April 1862

Decommissioned: 21 June 1865

Fate: Sold, August 1868

Subsequently served in Haitian Navy as Salnave and Union

Characteristics

Displacement: 786 tons

Length: 209 ft.

Beam: 32 ft.

Draft: 9 ft. 6 in.

Propulsion: Steam engine

side wheel-propelled

Armament

1 100-pounder gun

1 9-in. gun

4 24-pounder guns

Battles

Supported Gen. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign on the York and James Rivers

Battle of Drewry's Bluff

Captured CSS Teaser

Blockade and cruising off Wilmington, NC

Captured the sloop Express

Captured sloop Ceres

1st Battle of Fort Fisher

2nd Battle of Fort Fisher

Captured steamers Stag and Charlotte

Battle of Fort Anderson