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USS Osage

USS Osage

Builder: Union Iron Works,

Carondelet, Missouri

Laid Down: 1862

Launched: 13 January 1863

Commissioned: 10 July 1863

Sunk by Mine: 29 March 1865

Raised and Sold: 22 November 1867

Characteristic

Neosho-class River Monitor

Tons: 523

Length: 180 ft

Beam: 45 ft

Draft: 4 ft 6 in

Depth of Hold: 9 ft

4 x boilers

Propulsion: 1 x stern wheel

1 x Horizontal Steam Engine

Speed: 12 mph

Armament

2 x 11-inch smoothbore Dahlgren guns

Battles

Mississippi River Squadron

Red River Campaign

Fort De Russy

Battle of Blair's Landing

Mobile Campaign

Battle of Spanish Fort

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