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USS Orvetta

Built By: Purchased October 1, 1861

Sailed: Unknown

Commissioned: January 27, 1862

Decommissioned: July 3, 1865

 

Characteristics

Type: Schooner

Displacement: 199 tons

Length: 93 feet

Beam: 27 feet 2 inches

Draft: 7 feet 10 inches

Propulsion: Schooner Sail

Armament

1 13-inch Mortar

2 32-pounder guns

2 12-pounder heavy smoothbores

 

Battles

Mississippi River Mortar Flotilla

Forts Jackson and St. Philip

Vicksburg

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